House Beautiful If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home

ISBN: 1588164268

Author: Greene, Elaine

Condition: New

At times humorous, at times touching, these deeply personal essays by such acclaimed authors as Edna OBrien, Christopher Buckley, Michael Pye, A.M. Holmes, and Stacy Shiff, capture all the love and magic of home. Taken from House Beautifuls popular Thoughts of Home column.Home is where House Beautifuls heart is, and this second engaging collection of the magazines Thoughts of Home column pays tribute to that very special place. These first person essays capture the nostalgia for Grandmothers farmhouse, the giddy pleasures of that first apartment, the recovery from the loss of a beloved abode. Author Edna OBrien leads us through her adored childhood home in County Clare, a place she still dreams about every night. Christopher Buckleys Foggy Bottom Blues is an amusing account of his mishap-ridden relocation to Washington, D.C. Other contributors include the novelist A.M. Homes, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff, and the travel writer Hope Cooke. From Patrick Dunnes reminiscences of junkyard picking in New Orleans to Sally Ryder Bradys story of watching her familys Vermont house bulldozed to the ground, each of these essays reminds us that not only is there no place like home, but that no two are alike. Advertising in House Beautiful Magazine