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November 2002
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Featuring: Homer Hickam
432 pages
ISBN: 0440240921
EAN: 9780440240921
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of
readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble
mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times
crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October
Sky, “an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way, Hickam’s follow-up to
October Sky, “a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful and haunting.” Now Homer Hickam continues his extraordinary story with Sky
of Stone, dazzling us with exquisite storytelling as he
takes us back to that remarkable small town we first came to
know and love in October Sky.In the summer of ‘61, Homer
“Sonny” Hickam, a year of college behind him, was dreaming
of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny could
reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was spending
the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he
thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of
Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny’s father, the mine’s
superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man’s
death—and the townspeople are in conflict over the future of
the town.Sonny’s mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to
spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours, Sonny realizes two things: His father,
always cool and distant with his second son, doesn’t want
him there ... and his parents’ marriage has begun to
unravel. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery—of love,
betrayal, and most of all, of a brooding mystery that
threatens to destroy his father and his town. Cut off from his college funds by his father, Sonny finds
himself doing the unimaginable: taking a job as a
“track-laying man,” the toughest in the mine. Moving out to
live among the miners, Sonny is soon dazzled by a beautiful
older woman who wants to be the mine’s first female
engineer. And as the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny
finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first
real steps toward adulthood. But it’s a journey he can make only by peering into the
mysterious heart of Coalwood itself, and most of all, by
unraveling the story of a man’s death and a father’s
secret.In Sky of Stone, Homer Hickam looks down the
corridors of his past with love, humor, and forgiveness,
brilliantly evoking a close-knit community where everyone
knows everything about each other’s lives—except the things
that matter most. Sky of Stone is a memoir that reads like a
novel, mesmerizing us with rich language, narrative drive,
and sheer storytelling genius.
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