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.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-05-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 464 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Publisher's Note The best-selling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine explores what life is really like in contemporary small-town America, focusing on the people of Northampton, Massachusetts, to assess how individuals in a community transform a place into a home. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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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