Download ebook or buy real book: “The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home” by George Howe Colt
Genres: Travel, Non Fiction, History, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Book Club, Biography Memoir, Family
 | Original title: The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home Rating: 3.64 Publish date: June 1st 2004 Language: English Awards: National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2003), Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2004) Isbn: 074324964X |
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, 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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