The a novel Patchett, Ann creator author text Domestic fiction. Epic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. nyu 2019 First edition monographic eng

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337 pages ; 24 cm 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 Ann Patchett n-us-pa Brothers and sisters Fiction Dysfunctional families Fiction Stepmothers Fiction Poverty Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Families Fiction Brothers and sisters Dysfunctional families Families Inheritance and succession Poverty Stepmothers Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Pennsylvania Philadelphia Patchett, Ann, New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. (DLC) 2019024073 (OCoLC)1104853880 9780062963673 0062963678 9780062966292 0062966294 2019024072 190610 20191204104056.0 1090006765