{"product_id":"home-town-9780671785215","title":"Home Town","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eHome Town\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching yet lovingly rendered account of how a traditional American town endures and evolves at the turn of the millenniums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracy Kidder is an American nonfiction author and Pulitzer Prize winner. He studied at Harvard College and served in the United States Army.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527158173970,"sku":"9780671785215","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cedc6360-6a13-4f53-8b52-4cffe08a0814.jpg?v=1731292917","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/home-town-9780671785215","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}