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ISBN:	0615328938 (ISBN13: 9780615328935)
Edition Language:	English

Houses: a novel

Cynthia Rogers Parks

Paperback | Pages: 362 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 37 Users | 15 Reviews

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Title	:	Houses: a novel
Author	:	Cynthia Rogers Parks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 362 pages
Published	:	November 13th 2009 by Leigh Walker Books
Categories	:	Novels

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This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and men, are addressing now. The economic conditions that thwarted Lacey Winter's simple desires to have a home, be a mother and wife and still be a "person" are as real today as they ever were. But in this book there's no gender "war". Only dialectic. Only the questioning, reminiscing voice of that favorite aunt,that special neighbor or grandparent.

Don't write this one off as simple nostalgia. It IS an easy read. Because the narrator's voice is so intensely honest and accessible. But HOUSES is a complex novel, even if it's a gentle complexity.

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This simply titled book was a pleasant surprise to me. It is written as a memoir and I had to keep reminding myself that this is a novel, not Cynthia Rogers Park's memoir, although I'm sure there is a great deal of herself in the book. "Houses" is the memoir of Lacey Winter. It is also a snapshot of historic moments of the U.S. through the 1950s, 60's, 70's and on toward the millennium; the growth of changes after WWII, through the Viet Nam era, the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Ted

I grew up in an old Tudor-style house on an acre of land in a country club grounds outside of Chicago. There was a long driveway, a hundred trees and a creek running down the length of the property. The houses in my neighborhood were big, majestic and proud. My house held three levels, 5 bedrooms, (only 2 baths!), and a childs imagination. They brought me home from the hospital to that house, and that is where I discovered everything life had to offer until I was 13. That is when my parents

This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and

We all mark milestones in our lives in different ways. Some of us remember specific events by our jobs or gauge time by our children, but Lacey calls her memories up by houses.In Cynthia Rogers novel Houses, we enter the mind of Lacey Winters and travel back in time with her as she reveals to us her life, the many historical issues of that time that shaped life as it was, and the various dwellings that have kept her through her journey. She begins by remembering living with her Grandmother and

As part of the baby-boomer generation myself, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, written as a memoir. Lacey Winters was born in 1950, and like the rest of us who came of age in the 2nd half of the 20th century, remembers her personal life interwoven with the cultural and historical events happening during important times of her own history. Her childhood, while not idealic, reminded me so much of my own, with kids leaving the house every morning in the summertime to roam the neighborhood with

"Houses" is about the many beautiful, enduring and literally earth-shattering epidodes that women and men experience in life. It's how the locust-like numbers of "baby boomers"...in our gusto for living, for challenge and change, helped bring about impassioned awareness, and long standing, meaningful new ways of living in our generation...not just social unrest, mindless war, entitlements and greed. And, we continue to effect social, spiritual, political and cultural change even today.Ms Parks

This is a very soft, very subtle book. It reads like the memory of a fireside chat you once had with your favorite aunt or a special neighbor . An easy read, you'd tell your bookclub. Piece of cake. But this one haunts you. The narrator's voice gets in your head and surfaces when you're standing at the kitchen sink, in the carpool line, microwaving your lunch at work. The gender issues and problems that this ordinary character confronted twenty, thirty years ago are the same ones that women,and