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Under the house : revised edition / Leslie Hall Pinder

By:

Pinder, Leslie Hall, , 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Laredo : Shelfstealers, Inc. , 2012, c1986.Edition: Revised editionDescription: 217 p. : ills. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781619720084

DDC classification:

FIC PIN

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.P498 U5 1986

Summary: 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.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC PIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		059529

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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.

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