House Hold A Memoir of Place
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Ann Peters
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- 9780299296209
- 28 februari 2014
- 272 pagina's
Ann Peters
Ann Peters, RNHV, has been a health visitor (a postpartum midwife who makes scheduled house calls to check on the health of mother and baby) in the UK for more than 20 years. She retired from full-time National Health Service practice and has set up a successful private practice. She also works one day a week at a Family Center, which offers group work and health visiting support to parents and families. A mother of three and a hands-on grandmother, she has also advised her husband, a GP and BMA Consulting Medical Editor, on a number of Dorling Kindersley health books.
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Like the house built by Ann Peters's father on a hill in eastern Wisconsin, House Hold offers many views: cornfields and glacial lakes, fast food parking lots and rural highways, Manhattan apartments and Brooklyn brownstones. Peters revisits the modern split-level where she grew up in Wisconsin, remembering her architect father. Against the background of this formative space, she charts her roaming story through two decades of New York City apartments, before travelling to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado and finally purchasing an old farmhouse in upstate New York. More than a memoir of remembered landscapes, House Hold is also an expansive contemplation of America, a meditation on place and property, and an exploration of how literature shapes our thinking about the places we live. A gifted prose stylist, Peters seamlessly combines her love of buildings with her love of books. She wanders through the rooms of her past but also through what Henry James called the house of fiction, interweaving personal narrative with musings on James, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, Paule Marshall, William Maxwell, and others. Peters reflects on the romance of pastoral retreat, the hazards of nostalgia, America's history of expansion and land ownership, and the conflicted desires to put down roots and to hit the road. Throughout House Hold, she asks how places make us who we are.
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