The Dutch House By Ann Patchett
Book Excerpt :
Ann Patchett, the New York Times?bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.?'Do you think it?s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?? I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer.?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
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