The quintessential hatchet job.
A rambling, warm-hearted and humorous account of the life and times of a small heartland town and the people living therein. Partly the history of a town you cannot drive through (but would like to), partly a sketch of people you can never meet (but would like to), all shaggy dog story, from an expert of convincing descriptive human minutiae.
Wonderful. More on Paul Dirac by Gisela Dirac: http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html
