<![CDATA[Netherland]]>

false <![CDATA[Netherland]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793924m/2615008.jpg 2615008 17 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 a hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith. <br><br><i>Netherland </i>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. 2639658 book 20 5 2008 Netherland total:3543|5:607|4:1308|3:1067|2:430|1:131| 3543 12459 6652 1062 3 27 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 07 12:47:39 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:16:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 16 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 10:27:39 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:37:28 -0700 2008
Firstly: this book is not about the sport of cricket, so if that's at all a hindrance to your reading it, let that go. Sure there's some talk of the game and its particulars, and it creates a central catalyst from which the action of the story takes place...more...]]> 1 12 false false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 09:14:55 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 06:41:55 -0700 2008
The main character is boring, dry and unmotivated. He doesn't seem to care much about anything, so why should we? Aren...more...]]> 0 9 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 23:46:22 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 16:53:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false false Wed May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 09:39:37 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 22:11:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 07:34:39 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 08:11:32 -0800 2008 Saturday, tells the story of Hans, a banker originally from The Hague, and late of London, who lives in New York with his lawyer wife, Rachel, and their small son until the events of 9/11 sour Rachel on their New York life and she and the little b...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 21:25:35 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 04 19:32:08 -0700 2009 “How do you re-imagine your life?”

When I first read about “Netherland” it was presented as a 9/11 novel. This is not entirely the case. In fact, 9/11 the day barely figures into the plotline at all – it is the tumultuous after-effects of 9/11 that are explored in Joseph O�...more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed May 28 15:10:11 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 20:01:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Aug 21 16:24:01 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 16:36:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 23:20:06 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 14:35:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 12:32:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 07:07:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 12 13:14:08 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 26 05:08:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 4 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 11:06:45 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 11:14:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 20:14:21 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 18:38:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 08:24:12 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:29:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Feb 27 06:42:29 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 15:19:22 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:42:29 -0800 2009
Or, thousands of readers secretly want to be cricket players?

There are some lovely descriptions of New York, but that alon...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 05:44:34 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 07:30:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:09:09 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:09:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 09:50:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:26:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 07:47:19 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 08:54:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2615008