Home Town

✍ Scribed by Kidder, Tracy

• Book ID: 100613976
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 307 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Northampton (Mass.), United States., Massachusetts--Northampton.
• ISBN: 0307826473

✦ Synopsis

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...

✦ Subjects

United States