Joseph O'Neill
publisher
Vintage
format
Paperback
pages
272
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Jack Finney
While you and President Obama--- and aren’t we all just absolutely thrilled to have a President who reads—are reading NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill, here are some ideas to ponder:
- The game of cricket is clearly a metaphor. The immigrants who play cricket are both colonials and colonists.
- This novel has been likened to Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY. Post 9-11 NYC is experienced by a new generation of immigrants in a multicultural New York.
- NETHERLAND captures NYC’s myriad moods, anomalous neighborhoods, noise and stillness; its strivers, seekers, scam artists, and scoundrels.
Joseph O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland in 1964 and grew up in The
Netherlands. He is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge and a barrister
(lawyer) at the English Bar, where he practiced for ten years. He now
lives in New York with his wife, Vogue editor Sally Singer, and their three
sons.
He is the author of three novels, a number of short stories and a non-fiction
book, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, which was a New York Times
Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the Economist and the
Irish Times. He also writes literary and cultural criticism, most
regularly for the Atlantic Monthly.
Novels
Netherland (2008)
The Breezes (1996)
This Is The Life (1991)
Non-fiction
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (2001)
Beyond the book