The salt house
a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod
by Cynthia Huntington
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"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.
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20th century, American Poets, Biography, Cottages, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Large type books, Natural history, Poets, American, Sand dunes, Social life and customs, Summer, American Women poets, Authors, biography, Massachusetts, biography, Cape cod (mass.), biography, Cape cod (mass.), description and travel, Massachusetts, social life and customsPeople
Cynthia Huntington (1951-)Places
Cape Cod, Cape Cod (Mass.), MassachusettsTimes
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The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod
February 1, 2003, Dartmouth College Press
Paperback
in English
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1584652942 9781584652946
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The salt house: a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod
1999, University Press of New England
in English
0874519349 9780874519341
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The salt house: a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod
1999, G.K. Hall
in English
0783888120 9780783888125
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"We live on the inside curve of a spiral, where the peninsula turns around on itself and curls backward."
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