About this title: Tracy Kidder's account of the building of a house in Massachusetts is as riveting as a novel, describing with wit and clarity not only the nuts, bolts, and beams involved in the actual project, but the sometimes conflicting personalities of the architect, the builders, and the clients. An admirable blend of the technical and the personal.
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Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780395363171ISBN:0395363179
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. 341 p. : ill., plans; 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plans. Plans on lining papers. "A Richard Todd book"--Verso t.p. Bibliography: p. [335]-341. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780395363171ISBN:0395363179
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; pages clean, cover clean except a few spots near spine. dust jacket has a few tears at top, tattered edge, sticker on spine. read more
"A book you can read before tackling something yourself or before working with others. It's about management, but it's not a management handbook. It's about getting what you want, but it's not a negotiation manual. It's definitely not about a house. It's about a project and the journey one goes through to see it completed. Still, it also provides a different perspective of the places where you and I spend more hours than anywhere else in the world. Did you ever think of the nameless, faceless men who financed, designed, and built the house you are in right now? I never did until I read Kidder's book. I could see myself reading this one again someday."
"I liked this one, I'm actually going to send it to Eiliesh now- I got it through a book swap for her, because I just knew she'd like it- but I also wanted to read it first. Tracy Kidder is an EXCELLENT writer and writes a very diverse level of non-fiction, I have a couple other of his books in the pile to read and I'm interested in his newest as well. I hope Eiliesh will like it. He basically takes the building of a house and tells the stories of the owners thier families and the builders and architects and thier families and about the design and actual building process of the house."
"interesting for the most part, but kind of slow at times. i really enjoyed the fly on the wall approach to the whole home building process, from owners, to architect, to builders.
it was also exciting on a personal level as this is bill rawn's first independent architectural project, and having worked in his firm (much later than this book) it was interesting to compare the young bill to the more experienced architect he became."
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