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. 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.

NETHERLAND PB

Literature & Fiction

JOSEPH O'NEILL

Genre Fiction

Harperperennial

Netherland

HarperCollins, Publishers

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-04-30 Pages: 204 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of 'Netherland' Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning - it should. have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but. as John Breeze is about to find out. this couldnt be further from the truth 'The Breezes' is John Breezes account of his familys most hellish fortnight -. when insurance policies. security systems and lucky underpants are pitted against redundancy. burglary and relegation - and lose.John (a failing chair-maker) and his father (railway manager and rubbish football referee) are only feebly equipped with shaky religious notions. management maxims and cynical postures as they try to come to terms with the absurd unfairness of lightning striking twice ... From the confl...

BREEZES PB

Humor & Satire

Harper-perennial

Good Trouble

Fourth Estate

Godwin

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Untitled Novel

Anthony Julian travels to a subterranean world in search of his father, only to discover the elder Julian has been transformed by the mind control techniques of that world's rulers

LAND UNDER ENGLAND (CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION S.)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

2008 RECORDED BOOKS set of 8 UNABRIDGED AUDIO CDs

Literary

RECORDED BOOKS^

While searching for his missing father, Anthony Julian embarks on a terrifying journey into the Earth's interior. There he discovers a subterranean world, where descendants of the Roman Army suffer under a totalitarian regime in which individualism is completely obliterated by telepathic means. Refusing to join this rigidly controlled society, Anthony must fight to save his father and find a route to the surface - or perish. First published in 1935, the genre-transcending political and psychological themes of Land Under England put it far ahead of its time.

Land Under England

Gateway

Good Trouble: Stories

Vintage

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