This Damn House: My Subcontract with America
Margo Kaufman. Dell Publishing Company, $11.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-440-50796-3
A remodeling project goes awry. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 07/31/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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