The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

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.

Author: George Howe Colt
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/08/2004
Series: An Award-Winning Memoir
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.62w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780743249645