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Home Town by Tracy Kidder is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Home Town about?

"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." -- Publisher description

Who reads Home Town?

Author

Tracy Kidder

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679455882

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Sociology

Rating

3.75 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13