Far from Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns

by Ron Powers

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Powers' White Town Drowsing, which detailed the history of Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a work of surpassing eloquence. Now Powers tells the contrasting stories of Cairo, Illinois, and Kent, Connecticut.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394570340
• ISBN13: 9780394570341
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Simply excellent

I don't remember how I heard about this book, but I remember reading it--several years ago soon after the paperback edition was published. It is a model of how to write about changes and crises in a particular place. I am a book author and editor, journalism professor, newsletter editor, and former newspaper editor and publisher, who usually does not read books like this one. The best and only connection I have to this book is that I am interested in historic preservation of "main streets." Yet I read this book carefully and thoroughly, enjoying nearly all of it. The section on Cairo, Illinois was better than the section on Connecticut, but that's no real complaint. Highly recommended.