Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Memoirs

BROTHERS

George Howe Colt

On His Brothers and Brothers in History

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.

Colt writes beautifully about his own family and about social history, using one to illuminate the other.

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 of the year. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Life magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. He lives with his family in rural western Massachusetts.

Available products
Book Published 2012-12-01 by Scribner
Book Published 2012-12-01 by Scribner

Comments

A master craftsman of literary nonfiction, George Howe Colt brilliantly conjoins history and memoir, insight and humor—not to mention Cain and Abel, Groucho and Harpo. Every page of this book is a pleasure.

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.

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.