Author: Sarah Messer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.
Red House
Author: Sarah Messer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.
Red Island House
Author: Andrea Lee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198213819X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine. “People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan: to an idyllic stretch of beach in Madagascar where Senna builds a flamboyant vacation villa. Before she knows it, she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household, caught between her privileged American upbringing and her connection to the continent of her ancestors. So begins Shay’s journey into the heart of a remote African country. Can she keep her identity and her marriage intact amid the wild beauty and the lingering colonial sins of this mysterious world that both captivates and destroys foreigners? A mesmerizing, powerful tale of travel and self-discovery that evokes Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Red Island House showcases an extraordinary literary voice and gorgeously depicts a lush and unknown world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198213819X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine. “People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan: to an idyllic stretch of beach in Madagascar where Senna builds a flamboyant vacation villa. Before she knows it, she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household, caught between her privileged American upbringing and her connection to the continent of her ancestors. So begins Shay’s journey into the heart of a remote African country. Can she keep her identity and her marriage intact amid the wild beauty and the lingering colonial sins of this mysterious world that both captivates and destroys foreigners? A mesmerizing, powerful tale of travel and self-discovery that evokes Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Red Island House showcases an extraordinary literary voice and gorgeously depicts a lush and unknown world.
Red House, Blue House, Green House, Tree House!
Author: Jane Godwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925584691
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour. Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours of their world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925584691
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour. Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours of their world.
The Red House
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385535856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385535856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
The Red House
Author: Tony Abbott
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606105811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the weird voices rattling around inside his head. But like
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606105811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the weird voices rattling around inside his head. But like
The Little Green Island with a Little Red House
Author: Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608934659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Remember how you once could spend hours watching the busy, small inhabitants of your childhood garden--the ones that burrowed, scampered, or buzzed? Every young person is a naturalist at heart. And remember how exciting it was to have more colors than just the basic eight in the crayon box? Even the names of those wonderful hues were fun to say aloud: scarlet, sapphire, chartreuse. In The Little Green Island with a Little Red House, acclaimed illustrator, naturalist, and garden writer Sharon Lovejoy melds gentle rhyme and winsome illustrations to introduce young readers to the little beige bat, the scarlet newt in the yellow boot, and many other creatures that share her island home.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608934659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Remember how you once could spend hours watching the busy, small inhabitants of your childhood garden--the ones that burrowed, scampered, or buzzed? Every young person is a naturalist at heart. And remember how exciting it was to have more colors than just the basic eight in the crayon box? Even the names of those wonderful hues were fun to say aloud: scarlet, sapphire, chartreuse. In The Little Green Island with a Little Red House, acclaimed illustrator, naturalist, and garden writer Sharon Lovejoy melds gentle rhyme and winsome illustrations to introduce young readers to the little beige bat, the scarlet newt in the yellow boot, and many other creatures that share her island home.
The Red House
Author: George Agnew Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258195625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258195625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Little Red House
Author: Adrienne Vaught
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1642379182
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The colorful journey of The Little Red House is one of personal growth and discovery of love and acceptance of one's self. After all if we have that no matter where we are we will always be home.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1642379182
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The colorful journey of The Little Red House is one of personal growth and discovery of love and acceptance of one's self. After all if we have that no matter where we are we will always be home.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Little Red House
Author: Norma Jean Sawicki
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN: 9780688078911
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A series of colorful toy houses, each one containing another slightly smaller, reveals a surprise inside.
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN: 9780688078911
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A series of colorful toy houses, each one containing another slightly smaller, reveals a surprise inside.