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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Philp, Drew, author.
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Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation.
Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Working class white people -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Generation Y -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
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A $500 house in Detr...
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A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp.
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Philp, Drew, author.
New York : Scribner, 2017.
Subjects
Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation.
Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Working class white people -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Generation Y -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781476797984 (hardcover) :
1476797986 (hardcover)
Description:
xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Contents:
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.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
307.3416 Philp Ph
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Wahiawa Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
307.3416 Philp Ph
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