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Availability:In StockContributor:Tracy KidderPublish date:2000-05-01Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Square PressISBN-13:9780671785215ISBN-10:671785214UPC:9780671785215Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, United StatesBook Topic:Urban, State & LocalSize:8.28 x 5.36 x 1.25 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC7TGFX0JM
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Square PressISBN-13:9780671785215ISBN-10:671785214UPC:9780671785215Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, United StatesBook Topic:Urban, State & LocalSize:8.28 x 5.36 x 1.25 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC7TGFX0JM
Tracy Kidder is an American nonfiction author and Pulitzer Prize winner. He studied at Harvard College and served in the United States Army.
Publisher: Washington Square Press

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