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Home Town by Tracy Kidder (1999, Hardcover) 
Home Town by Tracy Kidder (1999, Hardcover)

 
Home Town by Tracy Kidder (1999, Hardcover)

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679455884
ISBN-13: 9780679455882
Product ID: EPID613932
Description: In this portrait of the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, by a master of expository prose, Tracy Kidder, who lives there, exposes layers of history and society through sketches of several of its citizens. A New York Times Notable Book ...
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Synopsis
In this portrait of the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, by a master of expository prose, Tracy Kidder, who lives there, exposes layers of history and society through sketches of several of its citizens. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.

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Publication Date:1999-05-01

Size
Length:349 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:23.2 oz

Publisher's Note
"Tracy Kidder's gift as a writer is one that is also often associated with certain great center fielders: a grace that makes the difficult look effortless.... The eloquent interplay, not just between history and the present, but between the public and private moments of life, results in a book whose subtle originality is at the service of the deep humanity of its portraiture. I can't think of an American writer who gets that sense of human scale more right, more consistently, than Tracy Kidder."--Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

The bestselling author of "The Soul of a New Machine" shows what life is really like in small-town America today, taking readers to Northampton, Massachusetts, to reveal the ordinary and the extraordinary lives that people lead, and to explore what it takes to make a modern small-city success story.

Industry Reviews
"With stroke-by-stroke miniature portraits and incantatory prose...Kidder beautifully limns the characters and values that shape one New England town."
Winecoff

"What binds HOMETOWN, in any case, is a single character, a 33-year-old police sergeant and Hamp native named Tommy O'Connor....[A]ll told he takes up about 40 percent of the book. It's a marvelous portrait."
Burnett

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