Netherland

O'Neill Joseph ; Wicke Anne
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Starred Review. Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O'Neill's dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing entrepreneur-gangster, that he never quite believed that people would sooner not have their understanding of the world blown up, even by Chuck Ramkissoon. The image of one's understanding of the world being blown up is poignant—this is Hans's fate after 9/11. He and wife Rachel abandon their downtown loft, and, soon, Rachel leaves him behind at their temporary residence, the Chelsea Hotel, taking their son, Jake, back to London. Hans, an equities analyst, is at loose ends without Rachel, and in the two years he remains Rachel-less in New York City, he gets swept up by Chuck, a Trinidadian expatriate Hans meets at a cricket match. Chuck's dream is to build a cricket stadium in Brooklyn; in the meantime, he operates as a factotum for a Russian gangster. The unlikely (and doomed from the novel's outset) friendship rises and falls in tandem with Hans's marriage, which falls and then, gradually, rises again. O'Neill (This Is the Life) offers an outsider's view of New York bursting with wisdom, authenticity and a sobering jolt of realism. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Nombre de pages 335
Date de parution 02/09/2010
Poids 188g
Largeur 109mm
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EAN 9782757819425
Titre Netherland
ISBN 2757819429
Auteur O'Neill Joseph ; Wicke Anne
Editeur POINTS
Largeur 109
Poids 188
Date de parution 20100902
Nombre de pages 335,00 €

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