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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...

   • 3.8/5 (3.8K)
   • Format: Paperback

   • Author: George Howe Colt

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   Aug 28, 2018 · The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt. 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. The book is 15 years old now but I recently heard about it from Erin Napier, of HGTV fame, when she tweeted that she was reading it. It was a National Book Award Finalist in 2003.

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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

   • Price: $9.59
   • Brand: Scribner

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   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.

5. www.simonandschuster.com › books › The-Big-HouseThe Big House | Book by George Howe Colt - Simon & Schuster

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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.

   • Author: George Howe Colt
   • Released on: June 08, 2004

   • Format: Paperback

6. www.publishersweekly.com › 9780684845173THE BIG HOUSE by George Howe Colt - Publishers Weekly

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   THE BIG HOUSE. George Howe Colt, . . Scribner, $25 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-684-84517-3. The epicenter of the Colt family is the Big House, built in 1903 on Wings Neck, a deserted strip of Cape...

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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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   • The Big House, a double Oscar winner for best screenplay and sound recording, is remarkably brutal for an MGM film. It not only established the grimy mise-en-scene of prison life but also introduced a whole new glossary of slang terms and a variety of movie 'types'. From the firm but kindly prison chaplain to the embittered lifer.

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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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   • Home » Movements home page » The Big House novel 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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   Sep 9, 2004 · This story of a country house is special in two ways, partly because Sledmere itself is unusual. The seat of a Yorkshire baronet, it has the elegant perfection of a European neo-Classical Trianon and an architectural grace and elysian grandeur of setting that has nothing ordinary about it.