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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.]]> 389474 3.51 3814 1120 2008 0 2009-06-26T21:39:23-07:00 942020 19 2009-06-26T21:39:23-07:00 3 0 false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 21:38:45 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 14:24:45 -0700 2009 more...]]>