George Howe Colt: 4 books
The Big House
A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
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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November of the Soul
The Enigma of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
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...
The Game
Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
*A Newsweek and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year*
From the bestselling author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football...
Brothers
On His Brothers and Brothers in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
G E O R G E H OW E C O L T ’ S The Big House is, as the New Yorker said, “full of surprises and contains more than seems possible: a family memoir, a brief history of the Cape, an investigation of nostalgia, a study of class, and a meditation on the privileges and burdens of the past.” Colt’s...