Peters Ann House Hold: A Memoir of Place 9780299296209

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Автор: Peters Ann
Название: House Hold: A Memoir of Place
ISBN: 9780299296209
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История архитектуры

Мемуары

ISBN-10: 0299296202
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2013
Серия: Architecture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 14 black & white photographs
Размер: 215 x 149 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History of architecture,Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Подзаголовок: A memoir of place
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Like the house built by Ann Peters’s father on a hill in eastern Wisconsin, House Hold offers many views: cornfields and glacial lakes, fast food parking lots and rural highways, Manhattan apartments and Brooklyn brownstones. Peters revisits the modern split-level where she grew up in Wisconsin, remembering her architect father. Against the background of this formative space, she charts her roaming story through two decades of New York City apartments, before travelling to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado and finally purchasing an old farmhouse in upstate New York.More than a memoir of remembered landscapes, House Hold is also an expansive contemplation of America, a meditation on place and property, and an exploration of how literature shapes our thinking about the places we live. A gifted prose stylist, Peters seamlessly combines her love of buildings with her love of books. She wanders through the rooms of her past but also through what Henry James called “the house of fiction,” interweaving personal narrative with musings on James, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, Paule Marshall, William Maxwell, and others. Peters reflects on the romance of pastoral retreat, the hazards of nostalgia, America’s history of expansion and land ownership, and the conflicted desires to put down roots and to hit the road. Throughout House Hold, she asks how places make us who we are.

House Hold: A Memoir of Place, Peters Ann