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ISBN
0684845172
EAN
9780684845173
Date of Publication
2003-06-16
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Type
Other book format
Release Title
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Artist
Colt, George Howe
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0684845172
ISBN-13
9780684845173
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2420625

Product Key Features

Book Title
Big House : a Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
United States / 20th Century, United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General, Customs & Traditions
Genre
Travel, House & Home, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
George Howe Colt
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
9.4 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
1.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-191138
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
David HalberstamWhat 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 withThe Late George ApleyandThe Proper Bostonians., Alec WilkinsonThe Big Houseis about the long, slow separation from the beautiful past -- in this case a shingled house by the ocean, which Colt's ancestors built and his family occupied in the summer for generations. He writes gracefully, with restraint and deep feeling, and his book is a rare accomplishment., Adrian Nicole LeBlanc This book is a true thing -- a careful opening into the rooms of origin, ameditation on loss and loving, a tender exploration of the mysteries of family. That George Howe Colt is a poet makes us especially lucky to be privy to his keen and generous company. In the fullness of a narrative fantastic with stories of his extraordinary ancestry, he honors what is precious without sentimentality, expresses intimacy without self-absorption, his wisdom rooted in humor and humility. I read it by my father's bedside as he lay dying, and felt safe inside this special book. Even more, I felt the steadying wonder of life., Adam HochschildFrom the beautiful opening pages onward, you know you are in the hands of a masterful writer -- observant, subtle, eloquent at evoking the memories and feelings that rise up when our adult selves and childhood memories meet. ButThe Big Houseis more than that; George Howe Colt brings to life several generations of an entire extended family, and the reader, like someone growing from childhood to adulthood and like the reader of a fine novel, gradually learns that this book's charmed, alluring world is far more complex than it first appears.
Dewey Decimal
974.4/92043/092 B
Table Of Content
Contents Prologue: WinterPART ONEIArrivingIIThe Family TreeIII1963IVThe Discovery of Cape CodVRooftreeVIRenovationsVIIFishingVIIIThe North and South FacesIXThe BarnXPlain LivingXIMoneyXIISailingXIIITennisMidsummerPART TWOXIVHidden HouseXVThe Big CoveXVIMissing CardsXVIIRainXVIIIThe White ElephantXIXFull HouseXXFloridaXXILeavingEpilogue: Indian SummerNotes on SourcesAcknowledgments
Synopsis
In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty-two summers, Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children.The Big House,the author's loving tribute to his one-of-a-kind family home, interweaves glimpses of that elegiac final visit with memories of earlier summers spent at the house and of the equally idiosyncratic people who lived there over the course of five generations.Built by Colt's great-grandfather one hundred years ago on a deserted Cape Cod peninsula, the house is a local landmark (neighboring children know it as the Ghost House): a four-story, eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, sloped roofs, and dormers. The emotional home of the Colt family, the Big House has watched over five weddings, four divorces, and three deaths, along with countless anniversaries, birthday parties, nervous breakdowns, and love affairs. Beaten by wind and rain, insulated by seaweed, it is both romantic and run-down, a symbol of the faded glory of the Boston Brahmin aristocracy.With a mixture of amusement and affection, Colt traces the rise and fall of this tragicomic social class while memorably capturing the essence of summer's ephemeral pleasures: sailing, tennis, fishing, rainy-day reading. Time seems to stand still in a summer house, and for the Colts the Big House always seemed an unchanging place in a changing world. But summer draws to a close, and the family must eventually say good-bye.Elegant and evocative,The Big Houseis both magical and sad, a gift to anyone who holds cherished memories of summer.
LC Classification Number
F72.C3C57 2003

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