TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kidder,Tracy
TI  - Home town
SN  - 0679455884 (acid-free paper)
AV  - F74.N86 K53 1999
U1  - 974.4/23 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Police
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Northampton
KW  - Biography
KW  - City and town life
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Northampton (Mass.)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - " ... 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
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