02011cam a2200421 4500 612772846 TxAuBib 20200123120000.0 190610s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024072 9780062963673 trade 0062963678 trade DLC eng DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Patchett, Ann. The Dutch house. The Dutch house : a novel / Ann Patchett. 1st ed. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] 337 p. ; 24 cm. Booklist starred, August 2019. Pub Weekly, July 2019. Kirkus Starred, June 2019. Booklist starred. Pub Weekly. Kirkus Starred. "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. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20200123. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Stepmothers Fiction. Poverty Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Families Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Family life Fiction. Philadelphia (Pa) Fiction.