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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 Townmakes 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679455884
ISBN-13
9780679455882
eBay Product ID (ePID)
613932

Product Key Features

Book Title
Home Town
Author
Tracy Kidder
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Sociology / General, General, Law Enforcement, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
344 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
F74.N86k53 1999
Reviews
"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 ofThe Coast of Chicago Praise forHouse "This book is the story of the building of a house, and it is told with such clarity, intelligence, and grace it makes you wonder why no one has written a book like it before. In the way that a well-told story of a marriage or of a love affair or of a child's coming of age fills you with a sense that you are reading about a fundamental human experience for the first time, so it is with House."--Paul Goldberger,The New York Times Book Review The Soul of a New Machine "Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art....Splendid."--The New York Times Book Review Old Friends "Sheer magic." --Walter Shapiro,Time Among Schoolchildren "Tracy Kidder can turn the most unlikely story into a riveting drama." --Anne Tyler
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-013614
Dewey Decimal
974.4/23
Dewey Edition
21

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