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The Big House : A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home :  A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home - George Howe Colt

The Big House : A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

By: George Howe Colt

Paperback | 1 June 2004

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A National Book Award Finalist | A New York Times Notable Book

Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer home 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 multigenerational family memoir.

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 a lifetime of childhood memories and family history. 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 New England way of life.
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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.

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