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PRAISE FOR ROCKET BOYS COMPELLING Rocketry gives Hickams story of his teenage - photo 1
PRAISE FOR
ROCKET BOYS

COMPELLING Rocketry gives Hickams story of his teenage years in the 1950s and early 60s a unique twist. Fulfillment of a boys dreams is what makes Rocket soar.

Chicago Tribune

A GREAT READ Rocket Boys is one mans engaging account of growing up and leaving home, but it is much more than that. One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[A] NOSTALGIC AND ENTERTAINING MEMOIR.

People

Rocket Boys rewards every mother and teacher who ever told children they could be anything they wanted if they worked hard enough. The memory of a special time remains for Hickam and everyone who ever dreamed of soaring to the stars.

The Orlando Sentinel

THOROUGHLY CAPTIVATING.

The Christian Science Monitor

A REFRESHINGLY HOPEFUL BOOK about personal triumph and achieving ones dreams, a book that can be recommended to all. Hickam has written a wonderful story about when kids had to make their own fun with what was at hand. Its an adult book about remembering childhood.

San Antonio Express-News

Rocket Boys, while a true story, reads like a well-written novel. It deals with a wide range of issues, including the bittersweet experience of coming of age. It also provides an intimate look at a dying town where people still allowed kids to dream and helped them make those dreams become reality.

Rocky Mountain News

A WONDERFUL READ Rocket Boys is [a] message of hope and accomplishment.

The Knoxville News-Sentinel

As our emotions are stirred and our nostalgia awakened, this wonderful and inspirational story really treats us to an enduring depiction about family, hope and love.

Nashville Tennessean

UPLIFTING.

BookPage

Its a big story, and Hickam tells it expertly a second-to-none tale of hope and self-realization.

Charleston Gazette

ENTHRALLING Hickam recalls stories with vivid de tail and historic accuracy. Rocket Boys is much more than the story of six boys who wanted to build a better rocket. Its the story of a young man looking for more from his life than what his dying community will be able to provide.

Huntsville Times (Ala.)

Great memoirs must balance the universal and the particular. Too much of the former makes it overly familiar; too much of the latter makes readers ask what the story has to do with them. In his debut, Hickam walks that line beautifully. No matter how jaded readers have become by the onslaught of memoirs, none will want to miss the fantastic voyage of BCMA, Auk and Coalwood.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

ABSORBING.

Booklist

So skillful and moving is the prose that he would surely have won his way free of Appalachia using a gift for words if an affinity for science had not opened the door first. Hickam portrays people who were important to his life [and] draws these and other figures with a deft hand that many authors never achieve. The book also offers something unusual these days: enthusiasm and hope that almost seem to come from a different civilization than our own.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Hickam writes with the wisdom of an adult embracing boyhood perceptions its a small story about big dreams and blasting into new frontiers.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

DIFFICULT TO PUT DOWN a poignant reminder of an extinct town. Hickam has a marvelous grasp of language, especially in his descriptions. Far from it being overly scientific, everyone should identify with something in these memoirs.

Louisville Eccentric Observer

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A Delta Book
Published by
Dell Publishing
a division of
Random House, Inc.
1540 Broadway
New York, New York 10036

Its All in the Game by Charles Gates Dawes and Carl Sigman. Lyrics reprinted courtesy of Major Songs (ASCAP) c/o The Songwriters Guild of America 1951, and Warner Bros. Publications, Inc. Rights for the British Reversionary Territories controlled by Memory Lane Music Limited, London. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing by Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain. 1955 Twentieth Century Music Corporation. Renewed and Assigned to EMI Miller Catalog, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of Warner Bros. Publications, Inc.

The author has sought to trace ownership and, when necessary, obtain permission for quotations included in this book. Occasionally he has been unable to determine or locate the author of a quote. In such instances, if an author of a quotation wishes to contact the author of this book, he or she should contact him through the publisher.

Copyright 1998 by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. For information address: Delacorte Press, New York, New York.

Delta is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

eISBN: 978-0-440-33387-6

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To Mom and Dad
And the people of Coalwood

AUTHORS NOTE

T HE ROCKET BOYS of the Big Creek Missile Agency and their lives and times were real, but it should be mentioned that I have used a certain authors license in telling their story. While I have used the actual names for each of the boys and my parents and most of the people in this book, I have used pseudonyms for others and also sometimes combined two or more people into one when I felt it necessary for clarification and simplification. I have also taken certain liberties in the telling of the story, particularly having to do with the precise sequence of events and who may have said what to whom. Nevertheless, my intention in allowing this narrative to stray from strict nonfiction was always to illuminate more brightly the truth.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I OWE A DEBT OF GRATITUDE to many people for this book. First, I extend my infinite appreciation to Mickey Freiberg of The Artists Agency in Los Angeles for recognizing the value of this work from its first glimmering. It was his belief in the story, and his confidence in my ability to write it, that gave me the opportunity I needed to proceed. Heartfelt thanks are due David Groff for his superb editorial assistance, and to Frank Weimann of The Literary Group in New York for taking the manuscript, with all his considerable skill, to the publishers. The assistance of Amir Fedder and Rich Capogrosso at The Artists Agency, and Jessica Wainwright, Lauren Mactas, and Kim Marsar at The Literary Group was also invaluable and much appreciated.

I think it wise for me to also thank the guardian angels that I have overworked over the years because they probably had something to do with my getting Tom Spain of Delacorte Press as my editor. Toms ability to find the core truths of this book (and sometimes even pointing them out to me when I didnt see them) has shaped it into all that it is. Many thanks to Delacortes Mitch Hoffman for his many kindnesses. Karen Mender, Carisa Hays, Linda Steinman, and Vicki Flick have also been very helpful. Throughout this whole process, Carole Baron, Leslie Schnur, and all of their staff at Delacorte have been unfailingly enthusiastic and professional in their support of this book. I very much appreciate their efforts.

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