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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.
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.
Tracy Kidder, whose most recent book is Home Town, is also the author of Among Schoolchildren and Old Friends. He has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
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Posted 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!
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Posted 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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Posted January 27, 2013
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Posted January 13, 2013
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Posted December 30, 2012
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Posted December 27, 2012
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Posted October 11, 2012
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Posted May 1, 2012
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Posted May 1, 2012
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Overview
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.
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....