by Ann Patchett
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
the dutch house. Copyright © 2019 by Ann Patchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
“Home Is so Sad” from The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. Copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Cover painting by Noah Saterstrom
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Patchett, Ann, author.
Title: The Dutch house : a novel / Ann Patchett.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] | Summary: “Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with 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”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019024072 (print) | LCCN 2019024073 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062963673 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062963697 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS3566.A7756 D88 2019 (print) | LCC PS3566.A7756 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024072
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024073
Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-296369-7
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-296367-3
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