The Dutch House is a quietly captivating, beautifully written novel that profoundly tugs at all corners of emotional family heartstrings. Whether you’ve read her gorgeous (yet devastating) Bel Canto or her totally captivating and highly original State of Wonder, you know she’s a writer who delivers quality, depth, and a little bit o’ literary magic.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.You will: Join me in a collective exhale for the goodness that is Ann Patchett. Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives, and the lives of those who survive us. For behind the mystery of their own enforced exile is that of their mother's self-imposed one: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.
Her arrival will exact a banishment: a banishment whose reverberations will echo for the rest of their lives.įor all that the world is open to him, for all that he can accumulate, for all that life is full, Danny and his sister are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. Though they cannot know it, Andrea's advent to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. Then one day their father brings Andrea home: Andrea, small and neat, a dark hat no bigger than a saucer pinned over a twist of her fair hair.
Life is comfortable and coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings, or under the cover of the draperies around the window seat in Maeve's room. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her delicacy, her brilliance. Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania taken on by his property developer father.
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