Big House (eBook)

A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

George Howe Colt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
336 Seiten
Scribner (Verlag)
978-1-4391-2491-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 1-4391-2491-4 / 1439124914
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-2491-8 / 9781439124918