Red House
Subtitle: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: June 28, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780142001059
First sentence: Before the highway, the oil slick, the outflow pipe; before the blizzard, the sea monster, the Girl Scout camp; before the nudist colony and flower farm; before the tidal wave broke the river's mouth, salting the cedar forest; before the ironworks, tack factory, and shoe-peg mill; before the landing where skinny- dipping white boys jumped through berry bushes; before hayfield, ferry, oyster bed; before Daniel Webster's horses stood buried in their graves; before militiamen's talk of separating; before Unitarians and Quakers, the shipyards and mills, the nineteen barns burned in the Indian raid-even then the Hatches had already built the Red House.