On a Street Called Easy, in a Cottage Called Joye
When Gregory White Smith and Seven Naifeh stumbled on Joye Cottage, it was love at first sight. They'd just finished their Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollack, and were fed up with apartment life in New York City. What better means of escape could there be than the Xanadu-like pleasure palace built by robber baron William C. Whitney a century before? The asking price was a bit steep, of course, and the leaks, the falling plaster, the non-existent heating and air conditioning, and the nineteenth-century plumbing were a bit daunting. But Smith and Naifeh were hooked — and nothing would stop them.
In writing of their three-year struggle to transform their "handyman special from hell" into a home while at the same time adjusting to the small-town rhythms of Aiken, South Carolina, they bring to life an unforgettable cast of characters — the neighbors, craftsmen, merchants, and friends who helped turn a town into a hometown... and a dream into a reality.
- Author
- Gregory White Smith, Steven Naifeh
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780553066814
- Genres
- memoir, humor, biography
- Release date
- 1997
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