Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

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Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Â G E O R G E H OW E C O L T â€™ S The Big House is, as the New Yorker said, â€œfull of surprises and contains more than seems possible: a family memoir, a brief history of the Cape, an investigation of nostalgia, a study of class, and a meditation on the privileges and burdens of the past.â€ Coltâ€™s new book, Brothers, is an equally idiosyncratic and masterful blend of memoir and history featuring both the authorâ€™s three brothers and iconic brothers in historyâ€”the Booths, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx Brothers, and the Thoreaus.

Colt believes he would be a different man had he not grown up in a family of four brothers. He movingly recounts the adoration, envy, affection, resentment, and compassion in their shifting relationships from childhood through middle age, also rendering a volatile decade in American life: the 1960s. Some of the Colt men now have children; all have found their own paths; all now consider their brothers to be their closest friends.

In alternate chapters, Colt parallels his quest to understand how his own brothers shaped his life with an examination of the rich and complex relationships between iconic brothers in history. He explores 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 overbearing 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 brotherâ€™s enterprises. How Vincent van Gogh would never have survived without the financial and emotional support of his younger brother, Theo, in a claustrophobic relationship that both defined and confined them. How Henry David Thoreauâ€™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 sibling, anyone curious about how a manâ€™s life can be molded by his brothers. Coltâ€™s magnificent book is a testament to the abiding power of fraternal love.

Country	USA
Author	George Howe Colt
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781451697667
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	481
PublicationDate	2012-11-27
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2012-11-27
Studio	Scribner

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

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