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

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.

Item details

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

Contents / Notes

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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