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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2007-12-01
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780385519298
- Book Title
- House Lust : America's Obsession with Our Homes
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- House & Home, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Real Estate / General, Sociology / General, Real Estate / Buying & Selling Homes, General
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 17.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting,House Lustoffers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history-and its eventual bust. Owning a home has long been considered the fulfillment of the American Dream. But in the last decade, as the real estate market boomed, Americans' fascination with homes turned into a frenzy. Everywhere we turned, people were talking about, scheming over, envying, shopping for, refinancing, or just plain ogling houses-in the process, we've transformed shelter from a basic necessity into an all-consuming passion. InHouse Lust,Newsweek's Daniel McGinn travels the country to explore the roots of this mania. Even as the real estate boom has turned to bust, Americans remain obsessed with houses-many of us are still trading up, adding on, or doubling down to buy vacation property. But for others, this zeal for housing has carried a painful price, one that's evident in the soaring foreclosure rates and mounting despair as millions of homeowners (and their lenders) realize they've stretched too far to buy the home of their dreams. In a compelling narrative that takes us inside the homes-and psyches-of the House Lustafflicted throughout the nation, McGinn examines the forces that turned housing into the talk of dinner parties. He explores the arms race for square footage and introduces readers to a menagerie of characters from the real estate world-from "renovation psychologists" who treat remodeling-addled clients to a guy who trades vacation time-shares the way kids trade baseball cards. McGinn also jumps into the fray himself by enrolling in real estate school and buying an investment property, sight unseen, over the Internet. House Lustshows us just how contagious the ideal of owning the best home on the block can be. And as the real estate boom recedes into memory, McGinn offers cautionary tales to help us curb our lust when prices start rising again.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
038551929x
ISBN-13
9780385519298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038275427
Product Key Features
Book Title
House Lust : America's Obsession with Our Homes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Real Estate / General, Sociology / General, Real Estate / Buying & Selling Homes, General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
House & Home, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq536.M413 2007
Reviews
Advance Praise for HOUSE LUST "After an odyssey that brought him in contact with every aspect of the housing boom, Daniel McGinn gives a deep sense of the spirit of our times--the Zeitgeist--and an understanding how this boom has led to our current economic problems."---ROBERT SHILLER, author, "Irrational Exuberance" "The best part of this smart, entertaining book is that while you're laughing at other people's excesses, you're simultaneously calculating how much it would cost to do a renovation like theirs."---JOEL STEIN, columnist, Time Magazine "Hot properties, hypnotic home shows, and hysterical American homeowners HOUSE LUST has it all. Daniel McGinn has written an insightful, comical read for the real estate junkie in all of us."---ALEX McLEOD, original host, "Trading Spaces" "A satisfying fix for anyone suffering from REAS--that's 'Real Estate Addiction Syndrome,' of course."---MICHAEL GROSS, author, "740 Park." "Every social gathering may end as a gabfest on real estate, but no one is as entertaining, informative, or knowledgeable about why we love our homes--and how the building industry makes use of our passions--as Daniel McGinn. HOUSE LUST is like a cocktail party without the hangover."-STEVEN LEVY, author, "The Perfect Thing" "It's Tracy Kidder-meets-Freakonomics as Daniel McGinn wryly explains our national obsession, profiling a cast of quirky characters along the way. HOUSE LUST is required reading in boom or bust."---ALISON ROGERS, author, "Diary of a Real Estate Rookie", Praise for HOUSE LUST "House Lustremains relevant in spite of the bust because, by and large, people will never stop jonesing to keep up with the Joneses."--USA Today "[House Lust]raises provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of America's culture and economy."--The New York Times "[House Lust]is a witty survey of the world of buying, selling, and gossiping about homes."--The Wall Street Journal "Daniel McGinn examines what drove history's greatest real estate boom with insightful, often amusing, anecdotes."--The New York Post "To understand this overweening desire for residential improvement, McGinn takes a humorous journey across the country... it's obvious McGinn has done his homework." --The Seattle Times "[House Lust]has been something of an instant hit."--The Worcester Telegram & Gazette "McGinn writes like a social historian, albeit one with an impish curiosity and willingness to follow each thread to the end...House Lustis a good-humored and entertaining first book."--The Real Deal "A highly-readable... snapshot album of 21st century American Life."--Kirkus "It is [McGinn's] ability to get inside the actual lives of the housing-obsessed rather than relying purely on statistics to prove his point that makes this book as enjoyable as an episode of Flip This House."--Publishers Weekly "After an odyssey that brought him in contact with every aspect of the housing boom, Daniel McGinn gives a deep sense of the spirit of our times--the Zeitgeist--and an understanding how this boom has led to our current economic problems."---ROBERT SHILLER, author,Irrational Exuberance "The best part of this smart, entertaining book is that while you're laughing at other people's excesses, you're simultaneously calculating how much it would cost to do a renovation like theirs."---JOEL STEIN, columnist,Time Magazine "Hot properties, hypnotic home shows, and hysterical American homeowners HOUSE LUST has it all. Daniel McGinn has written an insightful, comical read for the real estate junkie in all of us."---ALEX McLEOD, original host, "Trading Spaces" "A satisfying fix for anyone suffering from REAS--that's 'Real Estate Addiction Syndrome,' of course."---MICHAEL GROSS, author,740 Park "Every social gathering may end as a gabfest on real estate, but no one is as entertaining, informative, or knowledgeable about why we love our homes--and how the building industry makes use of our passions--as Daniel McGinn. HOUSE LUST is like a cocktail party without the hangover."-STEVEN LEVY, author,The Perfect Thing "It's Tracy Kidder-meets-Freakonomics as Daniel McGinn wryly explains our national obsession, profiling a cast of quirky characters along the way. HOUSE LUST is required reading in boom or bust."---ALISON ROGERS, author,Diary of a Real Estate Rookie
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-027746
Dewey Decimal
155.9/4
Dewey Edition
22
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