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The Big House - (An Award-Winning Memoir) by George Howe Colt (Paperback)

Name: The Big House - (An Award-Winning Memoir) by George Howe Colt (Paperback)
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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.
Author(s): George Howe Colt
336 Pages
Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Series Name: An Award-Winning Memoir

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In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, Colt explores not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life.

Book Synopsis

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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David Halberstam What a wonderful book. George Howe Colt has taken an original idea -- over four generations a house is a family and a family is a house -- and turned it into an uncommon success, becoming in the process the writer as family archaeologist. It's a book that stands in a line with The Late George Apley and The Proper Bostonians.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.6 Inches (H) x 5.62 Inches (W) x .82 Inches (D)

Weight: .68 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 336

Series Title: An Award-Winning Memoir

Genre: Biography + Autobiography

Sub-Genre: Personal Memoirs

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Format: Paperback

Author: George Howe Colt

Language: English

Street Date: June 8, 2004

TCIN: 76988863

UPC: 9780743249645

Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-0757

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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