01969cam a2200349 i 4500 445694152 TxAuBib 20190930120000.0 190610s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024072 9780062963673 hbk. $27.99 0062963678 hbk. $27.99 (OCoLC)1090006765 DLC eng rda DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib rda Patchett, Ann. The Dutch house. The Dutch house : a novel / Ann Patchett. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] 337 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured 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. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures."-- Provided by publisher. 20200229. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Poverty Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Philadelphia (Pa) Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction.