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

 
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A large family home on Cape Cod is the centerpiece of this memoir about the Colt family, a blatantly WASP-y tribe who have lost their money but retained their house. George Howe Colt returns with his family for one final summer, and describes the place over the course of the 42 summers he has visited there. In the midst of his nostalgic portrait of the good life on the ocean, he doesn't neglect the very modern afflictions that have undermined his relatives, including depression and alcoholism. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
 
 

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Authors George Howe Colt
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Travel
Nonfiction Subcategory Unknown

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  New Yorker: "Colt's account, like the house that lies at its center, is full of surprises and contains more than seems humanly possible...."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (June 01, 2004)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.72 lbs.
ISBN: 9780743249645

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  he doors that are always open have been closed and locked. The windows are shut tight. The shades are drawn. No water runs from the faucets. The toaster--which in the best of times works only if its handle is pinned under the weight of a second, even less functional toaster--is unplugged.
 

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In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty-two summers, Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children. The Big House, the author's loving tribute to his one-of-a-kind family home, interweaves glimpses of that elegiac final visit with memories of earlier summers spent at the house and of the equally idiosyncratic people who lived there over the course of five generations. Built by Colt's great- grandfather one hundred years ago on a deserted Cape Cod peninsula, the house is a local landmark (neighboring children know it as the Ghost House): a four-story, eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, sloped roofs, and dormers. The emotional home of the Colt family, the Big House has watched over five weddings, four divorces, and three deaths, along with countless anniversaries, birthday ...
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