Books+ Search Results
A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Author
Title
A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp.
ISBN
9781476797984
1476797986
9781476798011
147679801X
Edition
Firest Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication
New York : Scribner, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Five hundred dollar house in Detroit
Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2017
Contents
Prologue: best bid
Raw material
Clapboard siding
Someone else's trash
Windows and doors and airplanes
A fence between me and the world
Load-bearing walls
The furnace
A chimney to the sky
A knock on the door
Progress gallops
The years roll by
Someone else's home.
Subjects
Bookmark As
Citation
