Tracy Kidder
Autore di Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Sull'Autore
Tracy Kidder was educated at the University of Iowa and Harvard University. He served in the US Army in Vietnam. Kidder has garnered numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction and the National Book Award for General Nonfiction both in 1982. He has also been honored mostra altro with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1990 and the Christopher Award, 1990. His publications include numerous nonfiction articles and short fiction for The Atlantic and other periodicals. Non-Fiction books include The Road to Yuba City, Doubleday, 1974; The Soul of a New Machine, Atlantic Monthly-Little Brown, 1981 for which he won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award; House, Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Old Friends, Houghton Mifflin, 1993; Home Town, Random House, 1999; Mountains Beyond Mountains, Random House, 2003; My Detachment, Random House, 2005; Strength in What Remains, Random House, 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (2003) 4,931 copie
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people (2023) 230 copie
Swan 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Collaboratore — 388 copie
American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Adrenaline) (2002) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kidder, John Tracy
- Data di nascita
- 1945-11-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Massachusetts, USA
Maine, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University
University of Iowa
Phillips Academy - Attività lavorative
- soldier
journalist
non-fiction writer - Organizzazioni
- United States Army
The Atlantic Monthly
Utenti
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Tracy Kidder can always tell a story in his writing and we are eventually focused primarily on Tony, an in and out Rough Sleeper who plays such a central roll in Dr. Jim O'Connell's truly incredible work trying to help the homeless in Boston. I kept wondering if maybe, instead of trying to house the homeless in apartments, at least many of them would be better off in a home situaiton....the way some elderly people are now being put in group homes, with someone in charge...kind of like a housemother, with family meals as well as medical issues tended to. Leaving the streets cuts them off from their friends who are experiencing the same street life and apartment isolation becomes impossible. Absolutely no easy answers to problems that arise from so many different situations, but often originate in truly horrific childhoods.… (altro)
A very interesting, enjoyable and thought provoking book.
It narrowly escapes being a hagiography, but leaves you wondering if, perhaps, it should have been one.
The real life saint at the center is presented as complex and having flaws, sort of…
Almost like a normal human being.
The reporter presents himself as a character, without inserting too much of himself and fairly portraying his occasional bouts of cynicism or whininess.
A truly excellent work of journalism
It narrowly escapes being a hagiography, but leaves you wondering if, perhaps, it should have been one.
The real life saint at the center is presented as complex and having flaws, sort of…
Almost like a normal human being.
The reporter presents himself as a character, without inserting too much of himself and fairly portraying his occasional bouts of cynicism or whininess.
A truly excellent work of journalism
My big questions is “How do people like that become who they are?? The energy, focus, intelligence, drive, etc doesn’t just happen. Also, I really think Paul worked himself to death. I think he couldn’t even imagine ever ending his life’s work and the thought of running out of energy and slowly failing wasn’t part of his being. So he died in the field doing what he loved.
I've heard the distance between genius and insanity is a very thin line. Paul Farmer definitely vacillated between the two!… (altro)
I've heard the distance between genius and insanity is a very thin line. Paul Farmer definitely vacillated between the two!… (altro)
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- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 13,652
- Popolarità
- #1,699
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 414
- ISBN
- 163
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 30
Home Town is a memoir, woven-together stories of several inhabitants of Northampton Massachusetts from the 1950s through late 1990s. The main character is Tommy, a police officer and long time resident, but the story delves into stories of criminals, wealthy eccentrics, Smith College students, and others. It captures the small town feel in general and the Northampton vibe specifically, very very well. It's easy to read, mild, enjoyable. But it is too long. I was pretty tired of the characters by the end and there were portions I think could have been shortened or skipped as they just dragged on, especially in the absence of any significant plot.… (altro)