House
#2047 of 3,809 books · #88 in General
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1985).
Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780618001910
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1985)
Other awarded books from Tracy Kidder
- The Soul of a New Machine (2011)2 wins · 24 score
- Strength in What Remains (2009)0 wins · 7 score
- Among Schoolchildren (1989)0 wins · 4 score
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