Red House
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Messer, Sarah
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores Americas 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 houses original owner, Walter Hatchwhich stipulated Red House was to be passed down, never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren foreverstill hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another familys 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.
AUTHOR BIO
Sarah Messer is the author of a book of poetry, Bandit Letters. Her work has also appeared in the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and Story. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
BOOK REVIEWS
Red house is the story of America: hopeful, tragic, and persevering. Remarkable and amazing. (Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish) A genealogy of home and heart. Impossible to put down. (Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio) An evocative story ... told with a freshness that demonstrates Messers skill at humanizing vignettes. (The Boston Globe) [Messer] discovers surprising and often painful truths about history and heritage, heart and home. (George Howe Colt, author of The Big House)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0142001058
ISBN(13-digit): 9780142001059
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 973
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 390
Paper Weight (lb): 0.58 lb
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