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Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer.
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 at the English Bar, where he practised for ten years, principally in the field of business law. He now lives in New York with his wife, Vogue editor Sally Singer, and their three sons.
O'Neill is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, Netherland, was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where it was called, "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell". He is also the author of 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.
O'Neill writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the Atlantic Monthly.
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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.
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“If you love him, bring him to NewYork, for it's heaven. If you hate him, bring him to NewYork, for it's hell”（如果你愛他，那就送他去紐約，因為那是天堂；如果你恨他，那就送他去紐約，因為那是地獄）這是一段很多中國人都熟悉的紐約的諺語，雖然隨著《北京人在紐...
評分 評分 評分這本書讀得很慢，原因是這又是一本以傳達情緒為主的書，而對於這種情緒的理解離開瞭特定的環境又變得非常睏難。更糟糕的是，作為情緒情節綫索的闆球又是一種我這輩子都沒見過的運動，而且即使見過，對於我這種對棒球規則都感覺費勁的人來說，也不可能有很正確的把握和很深刻的...
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评分書名怎麼叫netherlands瞭呢
评分一個荷蘭人在紐約的中産故事，盡是荒唐無奈，荒唐的婚姻關係，荒唐的紐約地景，荒唐的跨國身份，荒唐的闆球，最終也還是中産式的妥協。盡管闆球成為連接“地上世界”和“地下世界”這對隱喻的連結點，但是它自身太弱瞭，遠構不成現實主義的神話，還不如說是中産的自嘲，看不齣其中有什麼積極意義上的後9·11的“迴歸”。
评分書名怎麼叫netherlands瞭呢
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