House

Name: House
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Tracy Kidder
ISBN: 9781456124113

Author: Tracy Kidder

Narrator: Adrian Cronauer

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/09/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, House & Home

Synopsis

Why on earth should the nail-by-nail building of a house hold any fascination for anyone? Because when you put a lawyer, an architect, and a hippie builder together, that spells trouble. Kidder tells his story so well that you can't help but take sides.

About Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe

Probably the best book that will ever be written about the building of a house. Not "building" a house as in a how-to-do-it guide, but "the building" of a house as a process of personalities, philosophies, histories, trends, class status, power, and economics. Mostly, personalities. As a contractor......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

I read this book in hardcover when it was first published and found it fascinating. It’s about a family building their first house and about all those involved in its planning & construction. I do love houses but I was surprised how riveted I was by all the details of planning & constructing a house......more

Goodreads review by Christy

If you like misery, please read this book. The book was agonizingly long and detailed. The author did a lot of great research: the history of housebuilding, architecture, the sustainability of forests while also witnessing the journey of a couple building their house in New England with tons of inte......more