{"product_id":"9780615909448","title":"99 Jobs: Blood, Sweat, and Houses","description":"Joe repairs homes. With each job, he enters somebody's private world. Revealing a life. Or changing it.\u003cp\u003eHere's blue collar writing, finely crafted, about good hard work-and some bad work, too. Meet proud carpenters and working-class hippies. Meet clients who flirt, cheat, seduce, fight-and clients who warm your heart. Learn the taste of sewage, the jolt of a live wire. Drive to the emergency clinic with a wooden stake through your hand. Feel the satisfaction of work that is honest, simple, strong-sometimes perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A house is alive. It breathes. It expands and contracts. It ages. Sometimes it falls sick, and then I'm a doctor of houses. I probe intimate cavities. I study the bones, the nerves, the flesh of an old house where generations of remodels have built upon themselves. The structure tells a story: tragedy, comedy, or heartwarming family drama as day-to-day life slowly, inexorably leaves an imprint over the attic, on the walls, under the sink-or in the crawlspace.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From 99 Jobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNinety-nine stories that are gritty, funny, wise. And always deeply humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clear Heart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016362344688,"sku":"9780615909448","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615909448_p0.jpg?v=1763600885","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615909448","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}