{"product_id":"home-town","title":"Home Town","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHome Town\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTracy Kidder\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0671785214\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWashington Square Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Thus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e464\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Home Town | Tracy Kidder | Paperback | 0671785214 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks I 1791313","offer_id":68007521517720,"sku":"1791313","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71AH-RJxdaL.jpg?v=1794715568","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/home-town","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}