My Father's House

My Father's House by kunhardt, philip. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394437576.

MY FATHERS HOUSE is about a father and a son. But it is more than that. It is about family life as many Americans remember it: about seasons in the country and the rich impressions they left; about summer vacations, learning to fish and climb mountains, the fun of doing something hard and togetherl about tribulations as well as the pattern of family life- made even more enjoyable by anticipation and repetition. And it is about holiday, especially Christmas. But it is the strength and goodness of the authors father, his love of nature, his family, and the indelible inpression he made on everyone around him which create the special appeal of this book. Philip Kunhardts mother once told him: "Everything youve said or done makes a difference on other peoples lives, so that long after death you live in the world in a different form." "That is what the book is about," writes the author,"...along with crunching gravel at the end of a long day and golden weekends... It is about a chlds world and finally having to leave it. It is about the need to hold on to good memories during the dark. It is about stars and storms, about an old house upon a hill, about mountains and ocean, about a hero." "It is a book written to a father, from a son, with love."