Dark harbor : building house and home on an enchanted island / Ved Mehta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021.

Series:

Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021. Continents of exile

Continents of exile

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021--Homes and haunts--Maine--Islesboro Island.

Mehta, Ved.

Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021.

East Indian Americans.

Blind authors.

Dwellings.

Islesboro Island (Me.)--Social life and customs.

Islesboro Island (Me.).

Dwellings--Maine--Design and construction.

Authors, Indic--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Indic.

United States.

Maine.

Maine--Islesboro Island.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Blind authors--United States--Biography.

East Indian Americans--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Publishers Group West, [2003]

Summary:

When Ved Mehta was invited to Islesboro, a thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit.

Seduced by the dream of setting roots in the New World, Mehta finds himself buying a fifteen-acre parcel of land in the rugged terrain of Dark Harbor. To build his house, he hires the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, famous for designing, among other things, the IBM Building in New York. With echoes of Ibsen's Master-builder, Mehta details the folly of a blind man constructing a house on an island far removed from that other island, Manhattan, where he lives. Underlying this narrative is a richly allegorical tale about Mehta's own struggles as a writer and as a man. In the middle of it all, he falls in love with a much younger woman, whom he ultimately marries.

ISBN:

1560255285

OCLC:

51637578