The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- ISBN-10
- 1439124914
- ISBN-13
- 9781439124918
- Series
- The Big House
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-08-07
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- George Howe Colt
Description
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
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- 2009-11-03
- 224 pages
- Ebook
- Yale University Press
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