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A $500 house in Detroit: rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city

By Drew , Philp

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2017
ISBN
9781476797984, 9781476797991, 9781476798011, 147679801X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8272082 bytes)
Edition
Firest Scribner hardcover edition
Pages
(xi, 290 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social condi

Description

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.;"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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