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

Messer, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033154 ISBN 13: 9780670033157

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

Synopsis

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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Review:

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 Messer's 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")

"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 Messer s 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"

"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 Messer's 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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670033154
• ISBN 13: 9780670033157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390