George Howe Colt

“As soon as I started reading Brothers, I found myself talking about it to everyone I saw. You will want to give it to people in your life. George Howe Colt is a master at balancing the personal and the universal, and the book makes a powerful case for sibling rivalry—and love—as a driving force not just in individual lives but in the world.” Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

"A captivating blend of historical anecdote, personal revelation, and psychological insight, this lively and imaginative book will serve up a great deal of wisdom (and just as much fun) to anyone who has ever been a brother or had a brother. In fact, maybe all you have to do to derive pleasure and nourishment from Colt's book is simply to have once met a brother—it’s that appealing." Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of November of the soul: The Enigma of Suicide and The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book. He lives with his family in Western Massachusetts.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

George Howe Colt shares Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History ($30.00). Colt’s new book is an idiosyncratic and masterful blend of memoir and history featuring both the author’s three brothers and iconic brothers in history—the Booths, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx Brothers, and the Thoreaus. Illuminating and affecting, this book will be revelatory for any parent of sons, any sibling, anyone curious about how a man’s life can be molded by his brothers.

George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide and The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book. He lives with his family in Western Massachusetts. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

George Howe Colt discusses and signs Brothers: George Howe Colt on His Brothers and Brothers in History
George Howe Colt believes that he would be an entirely different man had he not grown up in a family of four brothers. He movingly recounts the adoration, envy, rivalry, affection, anger, and compassion in their shifting relationships from childhood through middle age.
In alternate chapters, Colt moves from a quest to understand how his own brothers shaped his life to an examination of the complex relationships between iconic brothers in history. Illuminating and affecting, this book will be revelatory for any parent of sons, any brother or sister, anyone curious about how thoroughly a man's life can be molded by his brothers. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Returning to the family themes of his acclaimed The Big house, Colt examines the complexities of fraternal relationships. Alternating chapters on his own Brothers with profiles of famous Brothers, from the Thoreaus to the van Goghs to the Marxes, the book delves into questions of rivalry and affection, likeness and difference.

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From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author’s four Brothers and iconic Brothers in history — the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx Brothers, and the Booths.George Howe Colt believes that he would be an entirely different man had he not grown up in a family of four Brothers. He movingly recounts the adoration, envy, rivalry, affection, anger, and compassion in their shifting relationships from childhood through middle age.

In alternate chapters, Colt moves from a quest to understand how his own Brothers shaped his life to an examination of the complex relationships between iconic Brothers in history. Readers will learn how Edwin Booth grew up to become the greatest actor on the nineteenth-century American stage while his younger brother John grew up to assassinate a president. How Will Kellogg worked for his older brother John Harvey as a subservient yes-man for two decades until he finally broke free and launched the cereal empire that outlasted all his brother’s enterprises. How Vincent van Gogh would never have survived without the support of his younger brother Theo within a claustrophobic relationship that both defined and confined them. How Henry David Thoreau’s life was shadowed by the early death of his older brother, John, who haunted and inspired his writing. And how the Marx Brothers collaborated on the screen but competed offstage for women, money, and fame.

Illuminating and affecting, this book will be revelatory for any parent of sons, any brother or sister, anyone curious about how thoroughly a man’s life can be molded by his Brothers.

George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide and The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book. He lives with his family in Western Massachusetts.

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From the author of The Big House comes a fascinating glimpse into brotherhood. George Colt combines a memoir of his life with his own Brothers with glimpses into the relationships of famous Brothers in history. In alternate chapters he offers us scenes from his life with his own Brothers, and portraits of the Brothers Thoreau, Van Gogh, and Marx. In this marvelous book that envelops you in its intelligent, warmly conversational prose, we come to understand how brotherhood gets lived out in specific historical times and places. A multifaceted exploration of lifelong, life-shaping relationships.

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Please join us at the Bookshop on Thursday evening, November 29th at 7 pm, as we welcome George Howe Colt, reading from and signing his latest book, Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History . George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book of the year, and November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide. He lives with his wife Anne Fadiman and their two children in Western Massachusetts.

Location: Street: 65 Main Street City: Concord, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 01742-2503 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

George Howe Colt , The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home.

Non-Fiction title for March: BIG HOUSE by George Colt
Our in-store book group meets the second Thursday of each month at 6 pm. All are welcome to attend. The next month's title is chosen by majority vote at the close of each meeting. Choices are in-print, paperback format and alternate monthly between fiction and non-fiction. As a member of our book group, you will receive a 15% discount on the title of the month. (booksense)… (more)