A $500 House In Detroit : : Rebuilding An Abandoned Home And An American City
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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 knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- 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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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781476797984
1476797986
9781476797991
1476797994
SUBJECTS
Philp, Drew -- Detroit.
Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Detroit.
Urban renewal -- Detroit -- Citizen participation.
Subculture -- Detroit.
Community development -- Detroit.
Working class whites -- Detroit -- Biography.
African Americans -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Generation Y -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.