Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: Book Author: Philp, Drew, author. Title: A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp. Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, [2017] Description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. 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 whites -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography. Generation Y -- Biography. African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography. Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations. Genre: Autobiographies. Other Title: Five hundred dollar house in Detroit Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city Contents: 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. LCCN: 2016046283 ISBN: 9781476797984 Other Number: 952647897 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 647738 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Philp Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
