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Home Town

Tracy Kidder

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 1419 Users | 167 Reviews

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Original Title:	Home Town
ISBN:	0671785214 (ISBN13: 9780671785215)
Edition Language:	English

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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.

Present Appertaining To Books Home Town

Title	:	Home Town
Author	:	Tracy Kidder
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2000 by Washington Square Press (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Sociology

Rating Appertaining To Books Home Town

Ratings: 3.75 From 1419 Users | 167 Reviews

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3 and 1/2 stars out of 5 for this.

Kidder is a transporting writer, but I do not know if I would have found this book compelling without preexisting nostalgia for late 90s western Massachusetts.

Meh. Just didn't grab me.

I tried and tried to finish this book but finally had to give up.

This one has a bit of a personal connection for me because as a native Masshole, Northampton used to be the cool place we went to as kids. It was only an hour drive (an eternity from those of us who did not have access to a car) from our isolated and economically depressed city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.At the time I read this (back in 2000-2001= retro reviews), this book made me homesick. I loved NoHa, with its unique main street quirky charm, the character of all the crazy punks and artists

I can't believe it took me so long to read this amazing book. I have lived in the area and worked in Northampton so that may have been part of what made it to good, but I believe that anyone interested in personal stories, city development, sociology, law enforcement, mental health, and small town living will love it even when not knowing exactly where the author was describing. Very good book, and surprisingly still very relevant and topical today, 20 years after its publication.

A history that reads like a novel.