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Original Title:	House
ISBN:	5551159981 (ISBN13: 9785551159988)
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1985)

House

Tracy Kidder

Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 2077 Users | 152 Reviews

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Title	:	House
Author	:	Tracy Kidder
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (first published October 1st 1985)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Architecture. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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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 I read it with a sense of recognition and as a writer I read it with admiration and awe. Jim, the contractor in this project, seemed like a clone of my own personality - the drive for quality, the disdain for haggling, the over-sensitivity to the slightest insults of class warfare that seem to come with the job. I recognized all the carpenters in the crew - Vietnam vets, college grads, the likable kid clawing his way out of poverty, the equally likable one rejecting his father's bourgeois life, the dyslexic, the screwup, the perfectionist, the speedster - mix and match - and became very fond of them. But Tracy Kidder brought so much more than just the carpenters' points of view. He followed the thoughts and actions of Bill Rawn, the architect, who I came to admire. And Kidder described equally the drama of the house-building from the clients' point of view. I never warmed to Jonathan Souweine, the attorney husband, as he used his advantages and self-justifications to beat down the price, completely oblivious of the demoralizing effect it had on the workers. Meanwhile I liked Judith, Jonathan's wife. The fact that I reacted so strongly to each of the characters in this project shows how well Tracy Kidder described them. I'm not an objective reviewer here; I'm somebody who has lived through most of the scenes that he portrays. House, the book, is about the birth of one particular house, a birth filled with drama, conflict, history and hard work.

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A Jewish couple decide to have a house built. They hire a friend who is an architect and a group of builders who are craftsmen. The male buyer is a lawyer as is his father-in-law. The architect is just starting his own business and this is the first house he has designed. The builders need to come up with a price based on the architect's designs, which are not complete. When they do come up with a price the buyer talks them down a ridiculous $660.00, just to make the amount they are going to

What a terrific book. If you never thought there was much drama or suspense in the building of a house, you'll be surprised by this brilliantly written narrative that plays no favorites among the homeowners, the architect, and the team of builders who bring an idea to fruition. It strikes me that this is the kind of story that is now told mainly through documentary films. Published in 1985, it is much more revealing and more poignant than a 90 minute film could ever be. Kidder knows his

Even though all the events took place in the early 1980s, it was a terrific story and very informative dissertation.

Planning and building a house seems an unpromising subject around which to construct a book apart, perhaps, from a hands-on manual offering counsel and advice. Kidders House does none of these things yet, against all odds, carries off the task with considerable panache and flair.The book reads much as a novel would, while at the same time imparting insights into such diverse topics as lumbering, woodworking, interest rates and eight penny nails. Equally impressive, Kidder provides

Book club selection by Wil. I've enjoyed other books by Tracy Kidder (Soul of a New Machine, Strength in What Remains), but this one just didn't do much for me. I wasn't that interested in the subject of building a house (I may have been more interested earlier in my life), and the characters didn't interest me that much, especially the owners, who didn't seem all that excited about their new house until it was nearly done. I enjoyed the architect and carpenters as characters, although the

I read this years ago, it was the first in a line of books that I read by Tracy. Tracy's writing is backed up with good research.

Our architect recommended that we read this prior to starting the process on our vacant plot of land. Ups and downs, intricate details of building and relationships make this a very interesting and enlightening read.