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The Dutch House is a 2019 novel by Ann Patchett. It was published by Harper on September 24, 2019. It tells the story of a brother and sister, Danny and Maeve Conroy, who grow up in a mansion known as the Dutch House, and their lives over five decades. [2] The novel was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3]
In 2019, Patchett published her first children's book, Lambslide, [23] and the novel The Dutch House, [24] a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [25] In November 2021, she published These Precious Days, an essay collection she describes as the sequel to This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
The novel ends with another party thrown by Beverly, who has divorced Bert and remarried. Franny, married with two step-children, briefly leaves the Christmas party and drives to Bert’s house nearby. After visiting Bert, she stands on his porch and recalls a memory when she and Albie were the only children living in the house.
Dutch house, a style of the electro house music genre that originated in the Netherlands; Dutch House (New Castle, Delaware), a late-17th-century house in New Castle, Delaware; Dutch Houses, Chester, a building in Chester, England
At the end of the novel, the government breaks into the house and kills all the terrorists. All of the hostages are freed except for Hosokawa, who is shot by government forces in the struggle. In an epilogue that takes place some years later, former hostages Simon Thibault and his wife meet with Gen and Roxane, who are getting married in Italy.
The setting for the story is an ancient Cornish house called Kilmarth, which is based on the house the author had recently bought following the death of her husband. [5] After giving up his job the narrator, Dick Young, is offered the use of Kilmarth by an old university friend, biophysicist Magnus Lane. Dick reluctantly agrees to act as a test ...
Antonia's Line (Original title: Antonia) is a 1995 Dutch feminist film written and directed by Marleen Gorris.The film, described as a "feminist fairy tale", [3] [4] [5] tells the story of the independent Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community.
The Dutch Shoe Mystery is a novel written in 1931 by Ellery Queen. It is the third of the Queen mysteries. Plot summary