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Title	:	Netherland
Author	:	Joseph O'Neill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First American Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 269 pages
Published	:	May 20th 2008 by Pantheon (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. New York. Novels. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

Netherland Hardcover | Pages: 269 pages

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In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an “other” New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck’s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah--by his ability to hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.

Netherland gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsider’s vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers. Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man--of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory. Joseph O’Neill’s prose, in its conscientiousness and beauty, involves us utterly in the struggle for meaning that governs any single life.

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Original Title:	Netherland
ISBN:	0307377040 (ISBN13: 9780307377043)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hans van den Broek, Chuck Ramkissoon
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2008), Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2009), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2009), Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)

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I know many people loved this book. It made several best of the year lists when it was published in 2008 and won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award. More than one reviewer I respect compared it to The Great Gatsby. Yes, author Joseph ONeill certainly knows how to write a gorgeous sentence or two, and the last few pages have an elegiac, Gatsby-like quality.But I found Netherland a slog, one of the longest, most pointless 250-page novels Ive recently read.In a New York City still recovering from

purchased this book off big hype id been reading about it. another post 9/11 book about new york (it seems like thats all i read these days!) that deals with one man's coping (or lack thereof) after his family returns to london after the towers fell. couldnt really get into it after the first 100 pages or so - i could only read so much about cricket - but i found the more i read, the more i liked. o'neill comes across as a very intelligent author who writes beautiful sentence after sentence. i

If you feel culturally discombobulated reading this most recent book by Joseph ONeill (the prize-winning half-Irish, half-Turkish writer) narrated by Hans (the Dutch investment analyst working in New York by way of London) whose two main topics are cricket (as played by ex-pat West Indians) and his wife (the Venusian to his Martian), that may have been part of the point. Hans doesnt feel completely at home in any of his worlds. He confesses to being lost and clueless. The more you read, though,

I want to say something about this novel because although it impressed me and I respected O'Neill's skills as a writer, I didn't find it that enjoyable. There's a pleasing boldness to the syntax and diction, and there were a few passages that felt, well, wise, and when I gave myself some time to really dig into the text, I was impressed by the fluid time shifts and how the story felt unstructured and impeccably structured at once. But, the novel never pulled me in; I never really felt inside of

I hesitate to judge this book because I stopped midway through it. I hate quitting on a book, especially one considered to be the second coming of "The Great Gatsby," but I just don't have the confidence that I will ever get into it. From the get-go, it was hard for me to follow its meandering narrative. It constantly jumps to different time periods, going back and forth between memories, and dreams, and the present situation, like a storyteller with ADHD. It delves into moments of the

I don't know, I might get back to this. I like the side characters, the writing is nice, but God, middle aged apathy and anomie is just about the most boring subject imaginable, pretty much on par with teenage vampire romance.Later...After sampling the praise heaped upon this novel by the literary establishment (and at least one of my more literarily-inclined friends), sitting down and reading it did nothing to assuage my acute sense of literary insecurity. What, exactly, am I not getting here?

3/4 the way done with this. Reading it while sick--just after Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Interesting 'bookends'--Girl was badly written but a moderately compelling story, while Netherland is a completely uninteresting story packed with gorgeous writing and wonderful insights into our contemporary life and marriage, as well the secret life of diaspora culture in New York City. Alas, more than half the book is about the game of cricket, and I just couldn't care less, even after being told about