The Mud House

Richard Glover

• 01 maart 2016
• 9781489431363

Samenvatting:

'One day,' Philip said, 'I'd like to build something bigger ... like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go.' It was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. Richard Glover and his friend Philip and their partners started to build a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking ... not least because they decided to use mudbricks. In the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself ... But the process gave Richard the opportunity to examine things he had never quite reconciled to himself – big things like what it means to be a man, the nature of male relationships, fatherhood – and to challenge himself in the kind of blokey environment he had always rejected.