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Big House T (Paperback)
George Howe Colt
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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.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.
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his
bestselling National Book Award finalist "The Big House" such a
success, George Howe Colt's "November of the Soul" is a
compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive
investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of
in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge,
Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects
of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and
psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the
complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on
suicide's survivors.
Presented with deep compassion and humanity, "November of the
Soul" is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding
of suicide but also of the human condition.
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