01901cam a2200409 i 4500 404841956 TxAuBib 20191203120000.0 190610s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024073 9780062963697 0062963694 (OCoLC)1104853880 TxAuBib rda Patchett, Ann. The Dutch house : a novel / Ann Patchett. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] 1 online resource (337 pages.) 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. 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. 20191203. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Stepmothers Fiction. Poverty Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Families Fiction. Literature. Philadelphia (Pa) Fiction. Fiction. Electronic books. http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=76&titleId=4617767 TXLVP