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Home Town

by Tracy Kidder
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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 Town makes 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.
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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  • ISBN: 9780307826473
  • Release date: September 5, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307826473
  • File size: 2325 KB
  • Release date: September 5, 2012
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subjects

History Sociology Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:6.8
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:5

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 cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
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History Sociology Nonfiction
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