Sky of Stone (Coalwood #3)
NY: Delacorte, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. First printing. 5.75"x8.5" 365 numb. pgs. Pumpkin boards w/metallic pumpkin letters on a vanilla card stock spine. DJ art by Tom Hallman. Author photo on back of DJ by John Earle. Book design by Lynn Newmark. Map by David Lindroth, Inc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/foxing to edges and backside of DJ. Shelf wear to DJ w/faint soil spots. Not x-library, unclipped ($24.95), PON on first and last fep. Secure ship in box w/track #. Very Good / VeryGood. Item #17169
ISBN: 9780385335225
WV social life and customs. 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.
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