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I can't quite explain the hold this book has on me. Will the family hold together. As the bones of the house become more exposed, so too the family skeletons emerge.
Colt renders his childhood through the golden haze of privileged summers on Cape Cod, where adults are benign monarchs, traditions provide comforting boundaries, and a few acres of waterfront make an entire, endlessly fascinating world. And somehow, from the first few pages to the end, he holds you in suspense as you wait to find out the fate of the Big House and its inhabitants. This gem is a nearly perfect memoir: evocative of a particular time and place, yet much larger than its subject; informative, yet deeply personally felt.
Colt handles this beautifully, with great kindness. At the center is the beloved Big House, the heart and symbol of an entire way of life with its mixture of bare-walled austerity and aristocratic custom. In the second half of the book, Colt parallels the gradual decline of the house with his own loss of youthful innocence and the disappearance of Boston Brahmanism.
Will it survive another century. By the time I put the book down, I found I'd grown to love that old house almost as much as the author so obviously did.
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I have lived in my own house for 50 years. This is a model of how to write about that house and about that family. Wonderful phrases in in this book. "Hot, laden with gear, and smelling of fish.", "Thefront porch is littered with baseball mitts,snorkels,buckets, flip-flops strands of dried and slightly odoriferous seawood".A book to dip back into from time to time.
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