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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).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476797984
  • ISBN: 1476797986
  • ISBN: 9781476797991
  • ISBN: 1476797994
  • ISBN: 9781476798011
  • ISBN: 147679801X
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York ; London : Scribner, [2017]

Content descriptions

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 knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.

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Subject: Philp, Drew Homes and haunts Michigan Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) Biography
Dwellings Remodeling Michigan Detroit
Urban renewal Michigan Detroit Citizen participation
Subculture Michigan Detroit
Community development Michigan Detroit
Working class whites Michigan Detroit Biography
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 Kirtland Community College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Kirtland Community College Library F 574 .D48 P45 2017 30775305517253 General Collection Available -
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