The salt house

"The Salt House is a memoir of a long summer's stay on the back shore of Cape Cod. Each chapter is like a prose poem, shedding increasing light on the challenge of finding "home" without the illusion of permanence, a quest based not on ownership but on affinity and familiarity with an area and its people. Cynthia Huntington expands her theme through images of the landscape, the shack, the new marriage."--BOOK JACKET. "The shack, named "Euphoria," is built as a house set on stilts above the sand, to take the wind under it. Only a partial shelter, it is inhabited for only one season a year, yet it endures. The outer cape has the feel of a place for migrants and drifters - for birds and other wildlife, and for people such as artists, fishermen, and coast guardsmen. Similarly, her narrative describes improvised, fragile beginnings: a new marriage, learning to be at home in the world, becoming intimate with the natural world, without the necessity of settling down."--BOOK JACKET.

המשפט הראשון: We live on the inside curve of a spiral, where the peninsula turns around on itself and curls backward.

שנה

1999

שפה

English

הוצאה

Dartmouth College Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

199

ISBN

9781584652946

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata