Home Town by Tracy Kidder

Home Town by Tracy Kidder

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.

Tracy Kidder attended the University of Iowa after graduating from Harvard. He has earned the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for Literature. Many more literary awards, including the Kennedy Award. Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine and is the author of Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine.

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ISBN 13	9780679455882
ISBN 10	0679455884
Title	Home Town
Author	Tracy Kidder
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-04-20
Number of pages	349
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