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The Big House by George Howe Colt (2003, Hardcover) 
The Big House by George Howe Colt (2003, Hardcover)

 
The Big House by George Howe Colt (2003, Hardcover)

Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 2003-05-20
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684845172
ISBN-13: 9780684845173
Product ID: EPID2420625
Description: 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 desc...
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Synopsis
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.

Details
Publication Date:2003-05-20

Size
Length:327 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:19.2 oz

Publisher's Note
A dual history of the Colt family and their summer house on Cape Cod recounts the house's construction one hundred years earlier, the idiosyncratic personalities that stayed there throughout five generations, the major family events that took place there, and the family's last month in the house.

Industry Reviews
"[T]he wonder of the book is that the reader comes slowly, deeply, to comprehend the allure of a family world set staunchly against time, and the pathos of the author's struggle to let go of that world. The irony is that by the time he was ready to surrender, I wanted to hang on to the Big House, both the book and the place, which had indeed come to feel like the center of a universe."
New York Times Book Review - Le Anne Schreiber (07/06/2003)

"Colt's account, like the house that lies at its center, is full of surprises and contains more than seems humanly possible...."
New Yorker (08/04/2003)

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