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Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house 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 memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.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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The Big House, George Howe Colt
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- 2004
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- Titul
- The Big House
- Podtitul
- A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- George Howe Colt
- Vydavatel
- Scribner
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 336
- ISBN10
- 074324964X
- ISBN13
- 9780743249645
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Společenské vědy, Historické téma, Životopisy, Příručky a návody, Architektura, Rodina, Autobiografie & Memoáry, USA, 20. století, Americká literatura, Biografie, Sociologie, Vzpomínky, Život, Minulost, Tajemné, mysteriózní, Dějiny USA, Dům & Byt, Dětství, Kritika, Domov, Sociální dějiny, Zvyky a obyčeje, Generace a generační rozdíly, Teorie architektury, Předkové
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- Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house 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 memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.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.