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Home town, Tracy Kidder

Label
Home town, Tracy Kidder
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-432)
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Home town
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
44093318
Responsibility statement
Tracy Kidder
Summary
Explores what life is really like in contemporary small-town America, focusing on the people of Northampton, Massachusetts, to assess how individuals in a community transform a place into a home
Table Of Contents
Townie -- The morning polka -- A restraining order -- A moral place -- Hands -- Hunting -- Sanctuary -- Too cold for crime -- Tearless, eager and longing eyes -- Plain Miss Smith -- Total, mindless joy -- I could do this stuff -- The witness list -- Public works -- Meaning well -- The caretaker -- The application -- The trial -- Milton -- The farewell sermon -- Willoughby gap -- Karma -- Free at last -- The judge
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