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- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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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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- Título
- The Big House
- Subtítulo
- A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- George Howe Colt
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 336
- ISBN10
- 074324964X
- ISBN13
- 9780743249645
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Biografías, Guías y Manuales, Arquitectura, Familia, Autobiografías y memorias, EE.UU., Siglo XX, Literatura americana, Biografías, Sociología, Memorias, Vida, Pasado, Misterioso, Historia de EE. UU., Hogar & Decoración, Infancia, Crítica, Hogar, Historia social, Costumbres y tradiciones, Generaciones y diferencias generacionales, Teoría de la Arquitectura, Antepasados
- Descripción
- 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.