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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0618001913
  • ISBN-13:
    9780618001910
  • PUB. DATE:
    October 1999
  • PUBLISHER:
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

House / Edition 1 by Tracy Kidder

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House...So Much In One Wordby Anonymous

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About eight years ago, when I was 45, I became a carpenter. I do it because I like it...I really really like it. How refreshing, then, to happen upon a book that not only speaks the language of the builder in such a way to include those who know nothing of the profession, but celebrates the adventure that good carpentry and home building offers. And it isn't just for the carpenter that this terrific...

The people, not the house, are the focus here.by Anonymous

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I have been an architect since just before this book was first published and only now read it for the first time. Like Michael Pollan's 'A Place of My Own', 'House' was captivating and illuminating in ways that I was not expecting. There is a spritual aspect to building a custom home that Tracy Kidder brings out as he describes the meaning of the new house to the owners, the builders and to the architect....

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House

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  • Pub. Date: October 1999
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Sales Rank: 189,893

Synopsis

From the first nail to the final coat of paint, blueprints to moving day, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder leads readers through the grand adventure of building an American dream. In Kidder's hands, the story of constructing a house becomes "powerful, rich, enjoyable . . . a suspenseful, gripping tale" (People).

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

And ''House'' is finally a happy story. A collection of highly abrasive people succeed in getting along with one another and producing something worthwhile. Whether this was chance or design will be up to readers of this intriguing book to decide. -- New York Times

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Biography

Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literary prizes. The author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.