Rocket Man
- ISBN-10
- 1938467582
- ISBN-13
- 9781938467585
- Series
- Rocket Man
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-01
- Publisher
- Koehler Books
- Author
- William E Hazelgrove
Description
Rocket Man is a very funny and poignant comment on our times, when an upside down middle class is barely hanging onto the American dream. Taking cues from the calamity of The Great Recession, we meet Dale Hammer, a man who is determined to find meaning in a landscape of suburban homogeneity, looking for the moment he had with his own father when they blasted off a rocket on a wintery evening. He feels his son slipping away as he tries to get around “the silent shame of fathers and sons.” He becomes the Rocket Man for his sons scout troop and immediately his life implodes. Accused of cutting down the subdivision sign to his neighborhood, he becomes the lone rebel, going down in a flaming arc. When Rocket Day comes, Dale is determined to give his son more than his father gave him.
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- 2019-02-26
- 340 pages
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