The perfect $100,000 house : a trip across America and back in pursuit of a place to call home / Karrie Jacobs ; with illustrations by Gary Panter.

Main entry:

Jacobs, Karrie, 1957-

Title & Author:

The perfect $100,000 house : a trip across America and back in pursuit of a place to call home / Karrie Jacobs ; with illustrations by Gary Panter.

Publication:

New York : Viking, 2006.

Description:

ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Housebuilding camp -- The road to nowhere -- Rocio Romero and the extraordinary ordinary -- Flatter than a pancake -- Land of 500,000 bikers -- The perfect house -- California -- Subdivision fever, part 1 -- Subdivision fever, part 2 -- Populist modernism in Austin -- The shot-trot -- Let us now praise famous men -- Breeze blocks -- The pursuit of happiness -- Bill of Troy.

Summary:

Karrie Jacobs travels coast-to-coast in a quest for an ideal house for the average American in a "combination of road trip and ongoing philosophical tract"--Back cover.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0670037613
9780670037612

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic Psychological aspects.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
United States.

Added entries:

Perfect one hundred thousand dollar house

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247279
Call No.: BIB 176822
Status: Available

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