Joseph O'Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of three previous novels, 'Netherland' (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize ), 'This Is the Life' and 'The Breezes', as well as a memoir, 'Blood-Dark Track'.4/5(). · The Cricket Players Of New York Much of Joseph O'Neill's novel, "Netherland", involves the game of cricket as played by a diverse group of immigrants to New York City. The game becomes a way of bonding and of escaping anonymity and loneliness in an endless city/5. Netherland is a novel by Irish author Joseph O'Neill. First published by Harper Perennial in , it is the story of Hans van den Broek, a Dutch financial analyst in New York City, who undergoes a period of intense personal change as his adopted homeland grapples with the large-scale changes wrought by the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill. Most reviews of Netherland have focused on the relationship between two main male characters, Chuck and Hans, and on the dramatic and emblematic role of cricket in the novel. Yet a quieter but equally resonant storyline--the unraveling of Hans and Rachel's marriage--seems to have been labeled by critics as secondary, or even undeveloped. Find Netherland by O\'neill, Joseph at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Joseph O'Neill is the author of the novels The Dog, Netherland (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), The Breezes, and This Is the Life. He has also written a family history, Blood-Dark. More about Joseph O'Neill. Product Details. Category: Literary Fiction.
Joseph O'Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of three previous novels, 'Netherland' (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize ), 'This Is the Life' and 'The Breezes', as well as a memoir, 'Blood-Dark Track'. The Cricket Players Of New York Much of Joseph O'Neill's novel, "Netherland", involves the game of cricket as played by a diverse group of immigrants to New York City. The game becomes a way of bonding and of escaping anonymity and loneliness in an endless city. In Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland,” cricket is at once an immigrant’s imagined community, an emblem of foreignness, and, most poignantly, a dream of America.
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