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   May 20, 2003 · 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 jum...

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   • Author: George Howe Colt

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   Jun 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 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.

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   • Author: George Howe Colt

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   Aug 28, 2018 · 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.

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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 returned for one last stay with his wife and children.

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   The Big House novel is a peculiarly Irish phenomenon and is based on an Irish reality, namely the big house where the landlord (often English) lived, surrounded by the poor Irish peasants. The novel, as written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was about the situation that then prevailed.

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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.

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   Is 'The Big House' a good book?

   • The Big House is a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures and a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life. Read it now, as it is in stock.

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   What is the book 'The Big House' about?

   • The Big House is about several generations of an entire extended family that comes to life in George Howe Colt's book. 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.

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   Is the big house based on a true story?

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   What is 'The Big House' by Alec Wilkinson about?

   • Alec Wilkinson's 'The Big House' is about the long, slow separation from the beautiful past represented by a shingled house by the ocean that Colt's ancestors built and his family occupied in the summer for generations.

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   Who was the first woman to write a big house?

   • There were several early exponents, mainly though certainly not exclusively women. The best-known may well be Maria Edgeworth and her best-known big house novel is undoubtedly Castle Rackrent, published in 1800 and set in 1782.

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   A History of the Big House, translated from the French, stands halfway between a novel and a memoir. Majdalani writes to recreate the lost world of his grandfather Wakim Nassar. At the end of the nineteenth century, Wakim fled his native village in Lebanon after a quarrel to found “The Big House” on land close to Beirut but where the ...