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Softcover, very good condition throughout, with deckled page edges as issued in this printing. Covers are clean, bright, and with light creasing to the spine and corners. Pages are clean and bright throughout, free of any marks or annotations. A handsome, well-preserved copy. International edition. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2019. Ann Patchett is the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the National Humanities Medal. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's single canny real estate investment transforms his family from poverty to enormous wealth, beginning with the purchase of a lavish Philadelphia estate known as the Dutch House. Narrated by Cyril's son Danny, the novel follows him and his sharp, devoted older sister Maeve across five decades, from their exile from the house in childhood through the long reverberations of that loss into adulthood. ISBN 978-0-06-296629-2.