The Big House A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
, by Colt, George HoweNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780743249645 | 074324964X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/8/2004
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, theBig Housestands not only as a cherished reminder of summer's ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.