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Around the House . Reflections on Life Under a Roof

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Manufacturer: Villard
Author: David Owen
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 1998-08-11
Publisher: Villard
Label: Villard
Number Of Pages: 192

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Editorial Review
"Owen is the McPhee of Sheetrock,
the Gibbon of grouting, the Proust of paint."
--Esquire

Twelve years ago, David Owen and his family moved from an apartment in New York City to a two-hundred-year-old house in a small town in rural Connecticut. Life under a leaky roof has not only made Owen handy with a reciprocating saw but has shown him why it isn't necessarily foolish to keep a broken refrigerator in the bathroom.
In Around the House, Owen explains the usefulness of a noisy furnace (you know it's still working), the easiest way to increase a home's value by $25,000 (add a $50,000 kitchen to it), the perfect location for a second home (two doors away on the same street), and the reason most remodeling projects are futile: "You could spend a million dollars perking up a living room, yet at your next dinner party you would still find guests in the laundry room resting drinks on piles of folded underpants." He also identifies the most difficult home-improvement chore in the world: "the last ten percent of anything you start."
Around the House is a collection of new essays plus Owen's finest pieces from Home magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. It's the home-improvement guide for anyone who knows that the truly impor-tant work around any house isn't done with hammer and nails.
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Customer Reviews

Dave Barry meets Bob Vila

2000-02-28
For fans of David Owen's earlier book, The Walls Around Us, the style of this book will be familiar. Although it's less informative than the earlier book, Owen's musings about home ownership and home repair are very entertaining.

He is the most consistent humorist today

1999-01-26
Owen can bury his funniest lines in his grand understated way. I haven't read a book of his that didn't make me laugh out loud, and this is no exception. If you haven't read him yet, this is a fine start.

this is a wonderful, interesting, humourous, literate book -

1998-11-29
This is a wonderful book - I bought it through amazon.com of course! - and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it to anyone who enjoys the essay-form and is interested in the vissitudes of modern life. Humourous in an understated way and literate without being pretentious. BUY THIS BOOK and be prepared for a treat. A good Christmas present as well.