Kidder, Tracy. Home town / [electronic resource] / Tracy Kidder.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : Random House,, c1999.. — xiv, 349 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-349).
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.
Анотація: " ... 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 ... "--Dust jacket.