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A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Title:
A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Author:
Philp, Drew, author.
ISBN:
9781476797984
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Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Abstract:
"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.
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