The Perfect $100,000 House
Subtitle: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home
Contributors: Gary Panter (Illustrator)
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: August 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780670037612
Subjects: U.S. Architecture - General; Residential Buildings Architecture; Architecture; Psychological aspects; United States; Themes, motives; Domestic; Architecture / Domestic; Architecture, Domestic
First sentence: On the first of February 2003, the day the shuttle Columbia falls from the sky, I am in Houston, which likes to think of itself as "Space City."
Description: 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.