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Автор: Williams Mary Elizabeth
Название: Gimme Shelter
ISBN: 9781416557098
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Массовая культура

Собственность и недвижимость

ISBN-10: 1416557091
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2011
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.93 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Of course I want a home, writes Mary Elizabeth Williams, Im American. Gimme Shelter is the first book to reveal how this primal desire, encoded into our cultural DNA, drove our nation to extremes, from the heights of an unprecedented housing boom to the depths of an unparalleled crash.

As a writer and parent in New York City, Williams is careful to ground her real-estate dreams in the reality of her middle-class bank account. Yet as a person who knows no other way to fall in love than at first sight, her relationship with the nations most daunting housing market is a passionate one. Williamss house-hunting fantasy quickly morphs into a test of endurance, as her search for a place to live and a mortgage she can afford stretches into a three-year odyssey that takes her to the farthest reaches of the boroughs and the limits of her own patience.

Welcome to the tracks, she declares at the outset of yet another weekend tour of blindingly bad, wildly overpriced properties. Lets go to the wrong side of them, shall we? As her own quest unfolds, Williams simultaneously reports on the housing markets nationwide. Friends and family members grapple with real estate agents and lenders, neighborhood and quality-of-life issues, all the while voicing common concerns, as expressed by this Maryland working parent of three: The market was so hot, there were no houses. We looked for years at places the owners wouldnt even clean, let alone fix up.

How frustrating is the process? Williams likens it to hearing the opening bars of a song you think is Super Freak. And then it turns out to be U Cant Touch This. Told in an engaging blend of factfinding and memoir, Gimme Shelter charts the course of the real estate bubble as it floated ever upward, not with faceless numbers and documents but with the details of countless personal stories -- about the undeniable urge to put down roots and the lengths to which well go to find our way home.

Gimme Shelter, Williams Mary Elizabeth