Sky of Stone

Return to Coalwood, the West Virginia hometown that captured America's hearts in October Sky.  Homer Hickam contines his memoir:In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships.  But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call send him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood.  There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence ina man's death.  Sonny's mother, Elsie, has ordered her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father.  For Sonny, so begins a season of discovery - a time when he will learn about love, loss and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and the town.  As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself taking the first real step toward manhood.  But it's a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a man's death and a father's secret - the mysteries that lie at the very heart of Coalwood.

 
Sky of Stone
 
Sky of Stone
Return to Coalwood, the West Virginia hometown that captured America's hearts in October Sky.  Homer Hickam contines his memoir:In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships.  But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call send him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood.  There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence ina man's death.  Sonny's mother, Elsie, has ordered her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father.  For Sonny, so begins a season of discovery - a time when he will learn about love, loss and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and the town.  As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself taking the first real step toward manhood.  But it's a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a man's death and a father's secret - the mysteries that lie at the very heart of Coalwood.
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