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There was a Man in Our Town

Granville Hicks

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Description:"We're going to take this town apart and put it together - right." Ellery Hodder is speaking, retired college professor settled in the little upstate town of Colchester. A typical respected liberal of these days, he has long held large-scale ideas of political enlightenment, and now he's full of enthusiasm for putting these ideas into action "in the small." He jumps into the bramble bush of Colchester's local election. Before he emerges he has learned, among other things, that even with the best will in the world you don't take towns apart like watches to make them run better. The eyewitness narrator of this fast-moving and gently satirical novel is Bert Shattuck, home to spend a few months in the town where his family has lived for generations. Bert has the outsider's point of view but the insider's knowledge of his multitudinous family and friends, and when Ellery joins forces with the minority party that offers "symbols of change" Bert knows there is excitement ahead, as well as some unexpected education for Professor Ellery Hodder. The drama of the hotly contested election builds up amidst a criss-cross background of the town's individual lives and opinions, which Ellery doesn't understand. A love affair, an impending divorce, a fire, a murder, and some acts of terrorism take place before the vote is in."--GoodreadsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with There was a Man in Our Town. To get started finding There was a Man in Our Town, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 296

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: N.Y., Viking

Release: 1952

ISBN: dwTkAAAAMAAJ

Description: "We're going to take this town apart and put it together - right." Ellery Hodder is speaking, retired college professor settled in the little upstate town of Colchester. A typical respected liberal of these days, he has long held large-scale ideas of political enlightenment, and now he's full of enthusiasm for putting these ideas into action "in the small." He jumps into the bramble bush of Colchester's local election. Before he emerges he has learned, among other things, that even with the best will in the world you don't take towns apart like watches to make them run better. The eyewitness narrator of this fast-moving and gently satirical novel is Bert Shattuck, home to spend a few months in the town where his family has lived for generations. Bert has the outsider's point of view but the insider's knowledge of his multitudinous family and friends, and when Ellery joins forces with the minority party that offers "symbols of change" Bert knows there is excitement ahead, as well as some unexpected education for Professor Ellery Hodder. The drama of the hotly contested election builds up amidst a criss-cross background of the town's individual lives and opinions, which Ellery doesn't understand. A love affair, an impending divorce, a fire, a murder, and some acts of terrorism take place before the vote is in."--GoodreadsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with There was a Man in Our Town. To get started finding There was a Man in Our Town, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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