The Irresistible Henry House : A Novel (Paperback)

from pak6th

Grunwald has taken the extraordinary fact of "practice babies" and imagined what it would be like to have been one of those babies. Martha runs the practice house at a university where young women are taught to care for babies. Normally the babies are loaned from an orphanage, are mothered by as ...

from michigantrumpet

In a fictional 1950's College Home Economics Department, Martha runs the practice house - where young women students practice their mothering skills on a borrowed orphaned infant. Martha ascribes to a stern discipline for her charges. No smothering affection for them. Dr. Spock even makes a cameo...

from BookBully

Let's call "The Irresistible Henry House" a chick-lit homage to "The World According to Garp." And that's a good thing. Lisa Grunwald takes a piece of American history and turns it into a compelling story of love, loss, and friendship. Plus her main character, like Irving's, is a young man to sav...

from tututhefirst

Henry (House) Gaines was a practice baby. Born in 1946, given up for adoption by his unmarried teen-aged mother, he became a "House" baby in a university Home economics program where he was "raised" by a procession of young women majoring in home economics. Today, our high school students often c...

from rhshelver

The Irresistible Henry House had an interesting premise, multi-dimensional characters, and a plot that moved the reader along at a nice pace. It was a good book, and well worth reading. Somehow, though, I finished the book without caring much one way or another about what Henry did in the end. Pe...