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Author:	George Howe Colt	Publisher:	Scribner
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-10:	074324964X
Subject:	Biography & Autobiography	ISBN-13:	9780743249645
Topic:	--	Format:	Paperback
Language:	--	Publication 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.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
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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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

George Howe Colt

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Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	074324964X
Publication Date:	2004-06-01
Publisher:	Scribner

Pages:	336
Height:	1.0000 inches
Width:	5.4000 inches
Weight:	0.6500 pounds

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