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- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Number of Pages: 272
- ISBN: 0307388778
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112481983
- Release Date: June 2, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #32736 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #3780 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #121 in Fantasy - Contemporary (See Top 100 Fantasy - Contemporary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Netherland"Browse more products related to "Joseph O'Neill"Review"The wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell." "[NETHERLAND] is...[a] great American novel,....full of vividly descriptive passages that possess a heightened, almost hallucinatory brilliance....[It] is...a meditation on individual and communal loss, a hymn to New York in all its bruised, and bruising, vitality and a glimpse of the various, often surreal, ways in which immigrants embrace their new life while holding on fiercely to the one they have left behind." "I don't know whether Joseph O'Neill jumped out of his bath in Manhattan shrieking 'Eureka!' when he realized that, of all the possible subjects in the world, he had to write a novel about playing cricket in New York City, but he should have. Despite cricket's seeming irrelevance to America, the game makes his exquisitely written novel NETHERLAND a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read." "It is hard to know which is stranger - that a great American novel has been written about cricket, or that a great cricket novel should be set in America. But both are true. NETHERLAND, a state-of-the-nation exploration of contemporary America, is ambitious, intelligent and deeply perceptive." "Always sensitive and intelligent, NETHERLAND tells the fragmented story of a man in exile -- from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself." ยท Publisher's noteAbandoned amid the offbeat inhabitants of the Chelsea Hotel when his English wife and son return to London following September 11th, Hans, a banker originally from the Netherlands, struggles to find himself in his adopted country, until he stumbles upon a vibrant New York cricket subculture and the charismatic Chuck Ramkissoon. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Reprint. AnnotationAfter the 9/11 terrorist attack, Dutch equities analyst Hans van den Broek, his British wife, and his young son are forced to flee their devastated TriBeCa loft and find themselves living in the once-glamorous, now-dilapidated Chelsea Hotel. Hans's wife, horrified at the destruction and appalled at American politics, soon flees back to London with their son in tow. To fill the emotional hole in his life, Hans turns to cricket, that anachronistic and civilized sport, as an escape from his trauma and confusion, and finds himself becoming a friend, and sometimes accomplice, to an ambitious wheeler-dealer from Trinidad with dreams of building a cricket arena in Brooklyn. With a wry sense of humor and occasional unexpected stabs of poignancy, author Joseph O'Neill creates a wonderfully specific novel set against a backdrop of globalized crisis, and fractured, frightened families. If You Enjoy "Netherland (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Netherland (Paperback)" by Joseph O'Neill (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fantasy - Contemporary Bestsellers
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