ISBN 9780671785215 | 0671785214 Textbooks - "Home Town" by Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder Tracy Author on May012000 Paperback Home Town HOME TOWN by Kidder

Authors: Tracy Kidder - Tracy - Kidder - Tracy (Author) on May-01-2000 Paperback Home Town HOME TOW…
ISBN 10: 0671785214
ISBN 13: 9780671785215
Edition: First Edition
Release: May 1, 2000
Format: Paperback (464 pages)
List Price: $14.95
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Tags: History, Americas, United States,

Book Description:
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 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 millenniums.

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