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100 1  $a Shattuck, Jessica, $e author.
245 10 $a Last house : $b or the age of oil $h [large type] / $c Jessica Shattuck.
246 30 $a Age of oil
250    $a First Harper Large Print edition.
264  1 $a New York : $b Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2024]
300    $a 469 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm.
520    $a "It{u2019}s 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for his family, including Last House, a secluded country escape. Deep in the Vermont mountains, the Taylors are free from the stresses of modern life. Bet doesn{u2019}t have to worry about the Russian H-bombs that haunt her dreams, and the children roam free in the woods. Last House is a place that could survive the end of the world. It{u2019}s 1968, and America is on the brink of change. Protestors fill the streets to challenge everything from the Vietnam War to racism in the wake of MLK{u2019}s shooting{u2014}to the country's reliance on Big Oil. As Katherine makes her first forays into adult life, she{u2019}s caught up in the current of the time and struggles to reconcile her ideals with the stable and privileged childhood her Greatest Generation parents worked so hard to provide. But when the Movement shifts in a more radical direction, each member of the Taylor family will be forced to reckon with the consequences of the choices they{u2019}ve made for the causes they believed in. Spanning multiple generations and nearly eighty years, Last House tells the story of one American family during an age of grand ideals and even greater downfalls. Set against the backdrop of our nation{u2019}s history, this is...[a book] that digs deeply into questions of inheritance and what we owe each other{u2014}and captures to stunning effect the gravity of time, the double edge of progress, and the hubris of empire." --publisher's website.
650  0 $a Petroleum industry and trade $z United States $x Employees $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Vacation homes $z Vermont $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Conflict of generations $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Baby boom generation $x Attitudes $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Suburban life $z United States $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Historical fiction.
650  0 $a Protest movements $z United States $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Large type books.
651  0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1945- $v Fiction.
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