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Home Town
Tracy Kidder
出版Simon and Schuster, 2000-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN06717852149780671785215
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ib6Jf_zWj4AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.