Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House - Rilegato

Messer, Sarah

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ISBN 10: 0670033154 ISBN 13: 9780670033157

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2004

Riassunto

The author of the poetry collection, Bandit Letters, recounts her upbringing in a three-hundred-year-old New England colonial home, a childhood marked by the legacies of the house's original family as recorded in journals, letters, daguerreotypes, and other family documents that were left behind. 17,500 first printing.

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Few contemporary American writers have so acute a feeling for the interweaving of personal and social history...wonderful. (Charles Baxter, author of Feast of Love) Impossible to put down. (Terry Ryan, bestselling author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio) The Red House is the best work of non-fiction I’ve read in years... This book sizzles with authority. (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy) Red House is the story of America: hopeful, tragic and persevering... Remarkable and amazing. (Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish) Boldly conceived and meticulously crafted, Red House is alive with ghosts and possibilities...mesmerizing. (Beth Kephart, author of A Slant of Sun, National Book Award finalist, and Still Love in Strange Places) Joyous and tragic by turns...an act of loving restoration that ensures the Red House will live on forever. (George Howe Colt, author of The Big House, National Book Award Finalist) Sarah Messer’s lively, lyrical memoir...gives new meaning to the idea of place and the place of history in our lives. (Jane Brox, author of Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History) Lucid, Lyrical prose...a truly memorable work. (Charles Siebert, author of Wickerby) Messer's riveting account of intersecting families over space and time is a powerful and beautiful piece of writing (Jenny McPhee, author of The Center of Things)

L'autore:

Sarah Messer teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her poetry has been published in the Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Story, and many other journals. She is the author of a book of poetry, Bandit Letters. She has received a Mary Roberts Rinehart award for Emerging Writers, and grants and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670033154
• ISBN 13: 9780670033157
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 390