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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Philp, Drew, author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Philp, Drew, author.       by title:      A $500 house in Detr...         MARC Display

A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp. by 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 307.3416 Philp Ph Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 307.3416 Philp Ph Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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