All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House Paperback - 2009
by David Giffels
The memoir follows Giffels' funny, poignant, and confounding journey, as he and his wife and a colorful collection of helpers turn a money pit into a livable house. But the story's heart lies deeper in the series of personal hardships that call into question what home really means. Illustrated.
From the rear cover
With the lyrics of a Replacements song running through his head ("Look me in the eye, then tell me that I'm satisfied"), David Giffels--with his wife and infant son in tow--combs the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of the perfect house for his burgeoning family. The quest ends at the front door of a beautiful but decaying Gilded Age mansion, the once-grand former residence of a rubber-industry executive. It lacks functional plumbing and electricity, leaks rain like a cartoon shack, and is infested with all manner of wildlife. But for a young father at a coming-of-age crossroads, the challenge is precisely the allure.
All the Way Home is Giffels's funny, poignant, and confounding journey through the great adventure of restoring a crumbling house on the way to discovering what the words "grown up" and "home" really mean.
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- Title All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
- Author David Giffels
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company
- Date 2009-06-23
- ISBN 9780061362873 / 0061362875
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.34 x 0.78 in (20.27 x 13.56 x 1.98 cm)
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- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Library of Congress subjects Dwellings - Remodeling
- Dewey Decimal Code 643.709
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