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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Country of Origin
- GB
- Subtitle
- A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- Series
- Award-Winning Memoir
- EAN
- 9780743249645
- ISBN
- 9780743249645
- Release Year
- 2004
- Publication Name
- The Big House
- ISBN-10
- 074324964X
- Title
- The Big House
- Release Date
- 07/20/2004
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
074324964X
ISBN-13
9780743249645
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038599606
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
2004
Topic
United States / 20th Century, United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions
Genre
Travel, House & Home, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
An Award-Winning Memoir Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-191138
Reviews
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., 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., Adam Hochschild From 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. But The Big House is 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., Adrian Nicole LeBlanc This book is a true thing -- a careful opening into the rooms of origin, a meditation 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., 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 withThe Late George ApleyandThe Proper Bostonians., Alec Wilkinson The Big House is 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., 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. But The Big House is 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.
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Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
974.4/92043/092 B
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., Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last stay with his wife and children. 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, theBig Housestands not only as a cherished reminder of summer's ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life., "Juliana Stone rocks!" -Ann Aguirre, bestselling author of Doubleblind and Blue Diablo "Stone is on her way to becoming a paranormal favorite." -Sherrilyn Kenyon Already one of the most exciting and acclaimed authors of shapeshifter and paranormal romance, Juliana Stone now spins off from her sensational Jaguar Warriors series to introduce a breathtaking new supernatural band of heroes and heroines: the League of Guardians. In Wicked Road to Hell, vampire Ana comes back from the dead with vengeance on her mind-and sexy magician Declan in her heart. Fans of Nalini Singh and Pamela Palmer will adore Stone's League of Guardians-as the incomparable storyteller expands and darkens her extraordinary world, and sets it ablaze with phenomenal paranormal passion.
LC Classification Number
F72.C3 C57 2003
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