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Author: George Howe ColtPublisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-10: 074324964X
Subject: Biography & AutobiographyISBN-13: 9780743249645
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Language: EnglishPublication Year: 2004
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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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Length:327 pages
Height:8.8 in.
Width:5.8 in.
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Weight:11.5 oz.

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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.

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"[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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ISBN : 074324964X
Title : The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Authors : George Howe Colt
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Scribner
Publication Date : 2004-06-01
Pages : 336
Dimension : 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
List Price (MSRP) : 14.95
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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 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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