Home Town Paperback - 2000
by Tracy Kidder
In this "grand vision of a small place" ("People"), bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder creates a richly layered and unforgettable portrait of life in Northampton, Massachusetts, the quintessentially American hometown.
From the rear cover
In this fascinating book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder takes us inside the everyday workings of Northampton, Massachusetts -- a place that seems to personify the typical American hometown. Kidder unveils the complex drama behind the seemingly ordinary lives of Northampton's residents. And out of these stories he creates a splendid, startling portrait of a town, in a narrative that gracefully travels among past and present, public and private, joy and sorrow.
A host of real people are alive in these pages: a tycoon with a crippling ailment; a criminal whom the place has beguiled; a genial and merciful judge; a bighearted and garrulous mayor; a single mother struggling to start a new life at Smith College; and, at the center, a policeman who patrols the streets of his beloved hometown with a stern yet endearing brand of morality -- and who is about to discover the peril of spending a whole life in one small place. Their stories take us behind the town's facades and reveal how individuals shape the social conscience of a community. HOME TOWN is an unflinching yet lovingly rendered account of how a traditional American town endures and evolves at the turn of the millennium.
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- Title Home Town
- Author Tracy Kidder
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Washington Square Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-05-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780671785215 / 0671785214
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.36 x 1.25 in (21.03 x 13.61 x 3.18 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.423
Media reviews
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/02/2000, Page 73
- New York Times, 12/03/2000, Page 109
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