Under the house : revised edition
Pinder, Leslie Hall , 1946-
Under the house : revised edition / Leslie Hall Pinder - Revised edition - Laredo : Shelfstealers, Inc. , 2012, c1986. - 217 p. : ills. ; 22 cm.
No one knows how Sean De'Ath, stiff patriarch of the Rathbone family of Saskatchewan, has amassed his wealth. His wife is a mouse; his elder son, Stanley, cruel and driven; and his younger, Clarence, a stammerer. Eldest daughter Isabel has mysteriouslyand surprisinglyfled. The story, told largely by youngest child Maude and Evelyn, illegitimate offspring of the woman Stanley marries, begins with the family's gathering to hear S.D. read his will and has its climax and best writing at the trial years later when the family's shameful silences give way to revelations of money, power, and paternity.
9781619720084
87107151
PR9199.3.P498 / U5 1986
FIC PIN
Under the house : revised edition / Leslie Hall Pinder - Revised edition - Laredo : Shelfstealers, Inc. , 2012, c1986. - 217 p. : ills. ; 22 cm.
No one knows how Sean De'Ath, stiff patriarch of the Rathbone family of Saskatchewan, has amassed his wealth. His wife is a mouse; his elder son, Stanley, cruel and driven; and his younger, Clarence, a stammerer. Eldest daughter Isabel has mysteriouslyand surprisinglyfled. The story, told largely by youngest child Maude and Evelyn, illegitimate offspring of the woman Stanley marries, begins with the family's gathering to hear S.D. read his will and has its climax and best writing at the trial years later when the family's shameful silences give way to revelations of money, power, and paternity.
9781619720084
87107151
PR9199.3.P498 / U5 1986
FIC PIN
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