Netherland by Joseph O'neill

Netherland by Joseph O'neill

In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.

'Great cricket novels can be counted on one hand!Netherland looks as if it may top the lot!' Observer Sports 'O'Neill is an elegant stylist and his sensibility is engagingly wry!Netherland is paced like a thriller, but resolution of the mystery of Chuck's death is beside the pointIn its poise, bizarreness, moral ambiguity and preoccupation with perspective, this novel recalls Hitchcock: it is the kind of haunting book he might have made into a poignant film." The Telegraph 'O'Neill is a serious, honest, resolutely unflashy writer. Ramkisoon is a memorable creation, New York a vivid presence, and there is no doubting the book's integrity. But for this middle--aged cricketer, Hans's struggles were too familiar!The book, similarly, has long stretches of placid defence, and only occasionally flashing boundaries. In this era of Twenty 20, the crowd may become a little restless.' TLS 'New York is not what most people imagine it to be. Just as marriage, family, friendship and manhood are not. Netherland is suspensful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read. But more than any of that, it's revelatory. Joseph O'Neill has managed to paint the most famous city in the world, and the most familiar concept in the world (love) in an entirely new way.' Jonathan Safran Foer 'O'Neill writes a prose of Banvillean grace and beauty, shimmering with truthfulness, as poised as it unsettling. As well, this is a story that is hard to put down, for its characters are so real and their preoccupations so urgently of the now, that the book has the vividness of breaking news. He is a master of the long sentence, of the half-missed moment, of the strange archeology of the troubled marriage. Many have tried to write a great American novel. Joseph O'Neill has succeeded.' Joseph O'Connor 'Somewhere between the towns of Saul Bellow and Ian McEwan, O'Neill has pitched his miraculous tent ! The reader, almost imperceptibly, becomes little by little scorched by the novel's brilliance, irradiated by it, benignly." Sebastian Barry

Joseph O'Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of two previous novels, 'This Is The Life' and 'The Breezes', and a memoir, 'Blood Dark Track'.

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ISBN 13	9780007269068
ISBN 10	0007269064
Title	Netherland
Author	Joseph O'neill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2008-05-06
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Richard and Judy's Best Read of the Year 2009
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