The Dutch House : a novel / Ann Patchett
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TextEdition: First Harper Perennial editionDescription: 337 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780062963680; 0062963686Subject(s): Dysfunctional families -- Fiction | Stepmothers -- Fiction | Poverty -- Fiction | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Siblings -- Fiction | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Epic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels. | Fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3566.A7756 | D88 2021Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/PAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500067488 |
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another
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