Book menu for Home Town by Tracy Kidder
Food mentioned in Home Town:
Penny candy, 9
Ice cream sodas, 9
Cherry cokes, 9
Coffee, 17-18, 47, 103, 133, 140, 151, 179, 193, 233
266
Tuna melt, 18
Chocolate milk, 18, 321
Fruitopia, 2
Ice cream, 53, 233
Beer, 75, 191, 200, 229
Guinness, 296
Vodka, 75, 89
Godiva chocolates, 92
Fruit basket, 92
Candy canes, 134-135
Popcorn, 163, 244
Danish, 175
Rum, 179
Graham crackers, 182
Diet soda, 200
Sandwiches, 200
Champagne, 232
Cookies, 274
Coffee cake, 281
Sushi, 299
Cotton candy, 299
Pizza, 335
Books/Authors mentioned in Home Town:
Charles Dickens, xiii
Henry James, xiii, 332
Sylvia Plath, xiii 90
Manchild in the Promised Land / Claude Brown, 58
Herman Melville / Newton Arvin, 70
Paradise Lost / John Milton, 85, 285-287
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon, 87
Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes, 88
James Joyce, 121, 131
Sojourner Truth, 166-167, 271
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 182
Ernest Hemingway, 199, 285
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 201
T.S. Eliot, 269, 335
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 271
The Odyssey / Homer, 284
Music mentioned in Home Town:
Vivaldi, 31
"Tuba Polka", 44
"Angel Baby" / Rosie and the Originals, 174-175
Liz Phair, 181
"Danny Boy", 248
"Evil Woman" / Electra Light Orchestra, 260
Engelbert Humperdinck, 320
Movies mentioned in Home Town:
Stand By Me, 52
Love Story, 122
Magazines mentioned in Home Town:
Playboy
TV shows mentioned in Home Town:
Columbo, 218
Sesame Street, 255
Discussable Quotes from Home Town:
p. 88: [Alan said], "But I think people are much more focused on themselves than on relations with other people nowadays." He wasn't sure, but sometimes it did seem as if he could glimpse connections between the decline of manners, and maybe even the fall of the Northampton real estate market, to the grand, tragic story of civilizations past."
p. 287: [Laura said], "Literature is an alternative to self-destructive things. I think literature is the way out. I mean, books saved my life."
Page numbers refer to the hardcover edition: ISBN 0679455884
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