House by Tracy Kidder
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(Paperback - 1ST MARINE)
- Pub. Date: October 1999
- 352pp
- Sales Rank: 56,623
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 1999
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Format: Paperback, 352pp
- Sales Rank: 56,623
- ISBN-13: 9780618001910
- ISBN: 0618001913
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: 1ST MARINE
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).
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In House, a New York Times hardcover bestseller for over six months, Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges and triumphs.
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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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.
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The people, not the house, are the focus here.by Anonymous
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August 18, 2002: 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. The way he describes the personalities and their backgrounds is wonderful. I found myself drawn to each of them, and wanted to know them in person. IF ONLY there had been some pictures at some point! Also, interestingly, architect William Rawn has gone on from this first commission to head his own major architectural firm - its website is unlike what you'd expect after reading this book about such a modest house!
House...So Much In One Wordby Anonymous
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May 20, 2002: 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 book addresses itself. It's just as appropriate for the first timer building a home (or just completing the experience), the architect, the contractor or carpenter or helper. And all this, not in dry narrative, but through the experiences of an actual couple who undertook the project, the architect they hired, and the crew who did the actual work. It is riveting, it is human and it is a must- read for anyone in the trades.
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