Old Friends (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tracy Kidder
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Sociology
- Time of Work: December, 1990, to November, 1991
- Setting: Linda Manor, a nursing home in western Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Lou Freed, Joe Torchio, Eleanor, Ruth, Earl, Bob, Ray
- Genres: Nonfiction, Journalism, Sociology
- Subjects: Factories, New England, Storytelling, Catholics or Catholic Church, Time, Hospitals, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Massachusetts
Tracy Kidder’s reportage is distinguished by its ability to render scenes from real life with the graceful language and narrative drama more commonly associated with works of fiction. The most frequent praise bestowed upon Kidder, in fact, is that he writes with the transformative powers of a novelist, performing the alchemy required to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Since writing The Soul of a New Machine (1981), a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that chronicles the creation of a computer by a team of engineers, Kidder has turned his talents to more humble...
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