New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed
Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers 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. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.
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 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.
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humor and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
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New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed
Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers 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. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.
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 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.
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humor and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
Show morestrong >ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written three books of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, about her friendship with the writer, Lucy Grealy, What now? an expansion of her graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College, and, most recently, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays.
The Dutch House confirms what we've always known: Ann Patchett
doesn't write a bad book.--BookPage
The Dutch House is beautifully written and often tender.--The
Spectator
A great novelist is on top form with this tale of lost family
home.--The Times (London)
Ann Patchett spins a dark, compelling fairy tale in The Dutch
House.--Entertainment Weekly
As always, the author draws us close to her protagonists swiftly
and gracefully.--Wall Street Journal
As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather
than literature.--The Guardian
For Patchett fans who have been waiting for years, it's a
worthwhile read.--Evening Standard (London)
Patchett's prose is confident, unfussy and unadorned.--New York
Times
Subtle mystery, psychological page-turner, Patchett's latest is a
thriller.--Washington Post
This finely textured novel is made up of many such small, intimate
moments, yet the effect is sweeping, grand, and lavish--and all
deeply moving.--New York Journal of Books
This is a serious and poignant story, but also a delightfully funny
one.--Washington Independent Review of Books
You won't want to put down this engrossing, warmhearted book even
after you've read the last page."--NPR
"A big-hearted, capacious novel..."--Chapter 16
"The Dutch House has the richness, allusiveness, and emotional heft
of the best fiction."--Boston Globe
"The Dutch House is unusual, thoughtful and oddly exciting, as
well-told domestic dramas can be."--Columbus Dispatch
"A lavishly gifted writer."--Los Angeles Times
"Enchanting."--PEOPLE Magazine, Best Books of Fall 2019
"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."--New York
Times Book Review
"Patchett is a master storyteller."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"Patchett is at her subtle yet shining finest in this gloriously
incisive, often droll, quietly suspenseful drama of family,
ambition, and home. . . . With echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and in
sync with Alice McDermott, Patchett gracefully choreographs
surprising revelations and reunions as her characters struggle with
the need to be one's true self."--Booklist
"Patchett writes enviable prose--fluid, simple, direct, clear, and
fearless."--Esquire
"Patchett's splendid novel is a thoughtful, compassionate
exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire,
keep, lose or give away, and what they leave behind."--Publishers
Weekly(starred review)
"Patchett's storytelling abilities shine in this gratifying
novel."--Associated Press
"This richly furnished novel gives brilliantly clear views into the
lives it contains."--Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
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