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

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

Philp, Drew (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781476797984
  • ISBN: 1476797986
  • ISBN: 9781476798011
  • ISBN: 147679801X
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Firest Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2017.

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Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Summary, etc.: "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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Subject: Philp, Drew Homes and haunts Michigan Detroit
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African Americans Michigan Detroit Social conditions 21st century
Detroit (Mich.) Race relations
Generation Y Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library.

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Southbury Public Library 307.3 PHILP (Text) 34019140252248 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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