The salt house
Subtitle: a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod
By: Cynthia Huntington.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Huntington, Cynthia, 1951- -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Sand dunes -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Cottages -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Summer -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.