Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Eric Hodgins
Illustrated by William Steig

Category: Fiction/Architecture
Format: paper, $16.95, 239pp, 5 x 8, Paper, 35 B&W Drawings
ISBN: 0-89733-245-8
Price: $14.95

About the Book

The hilarious subtext of this classic work: how two romantics from the slick city were bamboozled by country bumpkins so that the house of their dreams cost them infinitely more than they had planned. William Steig's drawings, Atkinson said, "admirably caught Mr Blandings in all his moods from rhapsodic to desperate, angry and horrified." Mr Blandings was made into a film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy and later one called The Money Pit.

Praise

"Mr Blandings' skinning by real-estate men, architects, contractors, and plumbers should provide the reader with a lot of sadistic satisfaction, if it isn't too uncomfortably reminiscent."––The New Yorker