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The Dutch house a novel /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: UACD 7195 | Harper AudioPublisher: [New York] : Harper Collins Publishers, [2019]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9780062963727
  • 0062963724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3566.A7756 D88 2019ab
Online resources: Performed by Tom Hanks.Summary: 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 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.
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AUD CD PAT The Cornwalls are gone AUD CD PAT The 18th abduction AUD CD PAT The Inn AUD CD PAT The Dutch house AUD CD PAT Texas outlaw / AUD CD PAT The midwife murders / AUD CD PAT 1st case /

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Performed by Tom Hanks.

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 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.

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