Tracy Kidder es un autor estadounidense reconocido por su enfoque profundamente inmersivo en la narración de no ficción. Sobresale en el análisis de complejos esfuerzos humanos, desde el intrincado desarrollo de tecnología de vanguardia hasta el esfuerzo colaborativo detrás de las maravillas arquitectónicas. El método distintivo de Kidder implica una extensa investigación de campo, donde observa de cerca a sus sujetos, pasando un tiempo considerable con ellos para capturar la textura y los matices de su trabajo y sus vidas. Esta dedicación le permite crear narrativas convincentes que ofrecen profundas perspectivas sobre el proceso creativo y la dedicación de los involucrados.
As a medical student, Dr Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine - so readily available in the developed world - to those who need them most. The author's account shows how, from achieving this modest dream, one person can make a difference in solving global problems.
Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, the compelling account of the inventors of a new mini-supercomputer for the young Data General company, is the best chronicle of the computer age and the extraordinary people who have created it. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and ingenuity, it became an instant classic on publication and won a Pulitzer Prize. The Wall Street Journal described it as "fascinating" and "provocative", and The New York Times Book Review praised its "high level of narrative art". This Modern Library edition includes a new introduction by Tracy Kidder. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin.
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.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. Home Town is an unflinching yet lovingly rendered account of how a traditional American town endures and evolves at the turn of the millenniums.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances. "A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington Post Book World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. He offers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initial understanding of computers, allowing us to understand the complexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and to appreciate the skills of the people who create them." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition.
Amahoro nennen die Menschen in Burundi eine Zeit des Friedens, wenn Menschen sich noch wie Menschen verhalten. Nach Amahoro sehnt sich auch der junge Afrikaner Deogratias, als er in Ruanda auf den Flieger nach New York wartet. Er landet mit dem Wenigen, was er auf dem Leib trägt, schläft im Central Park, lernt in Buchläden Englisch aus Wörterbüchern und kämpft auf der Straße ums Überleben. Nachts quälen ihn Alpträume und Erinnerungen an unaussprechliche Dinge, die er vergessen will. Nach und nach enthüllt Tracy Kidder in Rückblenden das Grauen, dem Deo entkommen ist, erzählt von der (noch) friedlichen Kindheit in Burundi und von dem Ausbruch des unvorstellbaren Massakers der Tutsi und Hutu, dem die Welt fassungslos zusah. Unzählige Male sah Deo dem Tod ins Gesicht, und ebenso oft retteten ihn Akte der Menschlichkeit. So auch in New York. Der Obdachlose findet Freunde, studiert Medizin und wird Arzt, der Wunsch nach Verstehen jedoch bleibt. Er kehrt ins versehrte Burundi zurück und gründet ein Hilfswerk für Arme. Tracy Kidder erzählt mit großer literarischer Kraft von einem Schicksal, das niemanden unberührt lässt. Deogratias' Geschichte zeigt, wie auch aus tiefster Verzweiflung Mut und Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben erwachsen können.
