The big house, a century in the life of an American summer home, George Howe Colt
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The big house, a century in the life of an American summer home, George Howe Colt
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non fiction
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The big house
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George Howe Colt
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a century in the life of an American summer home
Summary
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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adult
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Big house
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