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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. 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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The Big House, George Howe Colt
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
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- Titel
- The Big House
- Untertitel
- A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- George Howe Colt
- Verlag
- Scribner
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 336
- ISBN10
- 074324964X
- ISBN13
- 9780743249645
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Biografien, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Architektur, Familie, Autobiografien & Memoiren, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Amerikanische Literatur, Biographien, Soziologie, Erinnerungen, Leben, Vergangenheit, Geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, Geschichte der USA, Wohnen & Deko, Kindheit, Kritik, Heim, Soziale Geschichte, Bräuche und Traditionen, Generationen, Generationsunterschiede, Architekturtheorie, Vorfahren
- Beschreibung
- 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.