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The Coalwood Way: A Memoir

Author:
Homer Hickam
Read by:
Frank Muller
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Ratings
Book
4
Narrator
2
Release Date
February 17, 2012
Duration
10 hours 57 minutes
Summary
From the #1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich, unforgettable tale. With the same dazzling storytelling that distinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us deeper into the soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its unique way of life is buffeted by forces of time and change. 

 

It is fall 1959. Homer “Sonny” Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, and the town of Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. 

 

The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where Homer Sr. struggles to save the mine, and his wife, Elsie, is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl, finds his own mood darkened by an unexplainable sadness. 

 

Then, with the holidays approaching, trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider bring unexpected changes in both the Hickam family and the town of Coalwood … as this luminous memoir moves toward its poignant conclusion.

 

“A heart-warmer … truly beautiful and haunting.”—People
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This is the second Masterpiece from Homer Hickam expanding on his early years before NASA and read by the incomparable Frank Muller.

The Coalwood Way: A Memoir

The Coalwood Way: A Memoir

Author: Homer Hickam
Read by: Frank Muller
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