books by Tracy Kidder

books by Tracy Kidder

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Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer

Tracy Kidder

Random House, 2003

'There's a lot that can be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches'
Tracy Kidder's brilliant biography of Dr. Paul Farmer is at once disturbing and exhilarating: disturbing, as it points out all the inequalities in living conditions and health care between the rich and the poor and the staggering statistics about disease and the lack ...

House

Tracy Kidder

Mariner Books, 1999

Please build me a house
I fell in love with these builders. I was so happy to see that Jim Locke did his own book and is apparently successful in his business. I just hope the others are too. There is so much slipshod work done these days - build it big, lots of fancy extras, lots of ...

The Soul Of A New Machine

Tracy Kidder

Back Bay Books, 2000

Start-up culture
Page turning nonfiction about the development of one of the first computers, and the work environment that made it possible. Extremely well-written. If you don't have an interest in computers, you'll probably be bored by some of the technical descriptions, but you ...

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Tracy Kidder

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

Another living hero
Paul Farmer is to Haiti what Greg Mortenson is to Pakistan. These are the people who best represent the American citizens to the world and I'm sure there are so many out there who do great sacrifice in their personal lives to help others. Besides being a well-told ...

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder

Random House, 2003

Tracy Kidder, Author (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) 'Mountains Beyond Mountains' The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World

Home Town

Tracy Kidder

Washington Square Press, 2000

Kidder Doesn't Kid
I really loved this book. It is introversion and extroversion at its height. The comparison of people in just this one town is incredible, but even more so the fact that the reader walks away wanting to know what happened to each and every character. I literally was ...

My Detachment: A Memoir

Tracy Kidder

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006

'...a young man in a morally desperate situation that everyone back home wants to forget...'
The tone of Tracy Kidder's excellent memoir from his tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968 and 1968 is dour, full of resentment and disbelief in the value of war, and one of the stronger pacifist statements in book form. Rather than re-living the horrors of the Vietnam War ...

Among Schoolchildren

Tracy Kidder

Harper Perennial, 1990

You Gotta Have Heart
Tracy Kidder captures the angst and the anger of the classroom in his book, "Among Schoolchildren," about the teaching-life of Mrs. Chris Zajac. Certainly those who criticize the public schools must read this book before they give up on schools and opt for vouchers for ...

Old Friends

Tracy Kidder

Houghton Mifflin, 1994

THE BEST IS YET TO COME......
After spending a year at Linda Manor, a nursing home in Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder offers no generalized discourse on the problems of aging in America, but rather a touching story of friendship, reconciliation, and peace. Joe Torchio ...

House
Tracy Kidder

Recorded Books, 1986

Why on earth should the nail-by-nail building of a house hold any fascination for anyone? Because when you put a lawyer, an architect, and a hippie builder together, that spells trouble. Kidder tells his story so well that you cant help but take sides.