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. 25
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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. 25
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. hardcover condition good ex-library book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. David HalberstamWhat a wonderful book. George Howe Colt has taken an original idea--over four generations a house is a family and a family is a house--and turned it into an uncommon success, becoming in the process the writer as family archaeologist. It's a book that stands in a line withThe Late George ApleyandThe Proper Bostonians., Alec WilkinsonThe Big Houseis about the long, slow separation from the beautiful past--in this case a shingled house by the ocean, which Colt's ancestors built and his family occupied in the summer for generations. He writes gracefully, with restraint and deep feeling, and his book is a rare accomplishment., Adrian Nicole LeBlanc This book is a true thing--a careful opening into the rooms of origin, ameditation on loss and loving, a tender exploration of the mysteries of family. That George Howe Colt is a poet makes us especially lucky to be privy to his keen and generous company. In the fullness of a narrative fantastic with stories of his extraordinary ancestry, he honors what is precious without sentimentality, expresses intimacy without self-absorption, his wisdom rooted in humor and humility. I read it by my father's bedside as he lay dying, and felt safe inside this special book. Even more, I felt the steadying wonder of life., Adam HochschildFrom the beautiful opening pages onward, you know you are in the hands of a masterful writer--observant, subtle, eloquent at evoking the memories and feelings that rise up when our adult selves and childhood memories meet. ButThe Big Houseis more than that; George Howe Colt brings to life several generations of an entire extended family, and the reader, like someone growing from childhood to adulthood and like the reader of a fine novel, gradually learns that this book's charmed, alluring world is far more complex than it first appears.
This was a wonderful book. A book I wanted to begin again as soon as I had finished the last page. I read it during my summer vacation. This is a book you can relate to, regardless of your background. His summers were spent in a large old house in New England. Mine were spent in a little rented cottage on a lake in Michigan. But there was just something universal about his story. His family's history was totally absorbing; his writing, compelling. I thought I really didn't like nonfiction. But this book changed my mind. I checked it out from the library, then had to own my own copy after reading it.
