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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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纽约河道里发现特立尼达人恰克•拉姆克森的尸体，这个不被人关注又迟到的新闻，却勾起在伦敦一家银行工作的荷兰人汉斯•范•登•布鲁克对于往日的回忆。尽管事情发生在震惊世界的美国911袭击事件之后，造成的伤害却无可避免的影响了所有的人，至少是身在纽约的汉斯一家...
評分第一眼是被这本书的封面吸引，我尤其喜欢湖面上的光，让整个画面有一种立体而生动的感觉。一直看到故事快结尾的时候，才明白了封面上这一幕的意义，那是主角汉斯陪着母亲在纽约游玩的一幕，这一对母子之间是一种并不太亲密却又无法割舍的感情。直到母亲永远的离开了后，汉斯才...
評分第一眼是被这本书的封面吸引，我尤其喜欢湖面上的光，让整个画面有一种立体而生动的感觉。一直看到故事快结尾的时候，才明白了封面上这一幕的意义，那是主角汉斯陪着母亲在纽约游玩的一幕，这一对母子之间是一种并不太亲密却又无法割舍的感情。直到母亲永远的离开了后，汉斯才...
評分书非卖不能读也，这本书买了好长时间了，这阵子收拾书柜，捡出来想卖掉，花了一天的功夫读完了。 看了开头的一段，主人公的一个朋友恰克尸体被发现，似乎有点悬疑片的味道，于是做好了剧情快速发展的准备，可是再读了几页，被缓慢的节奏和丰富的细节惊呆了。又回去看了看作者，...
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评分囉囉嗦嗦唧唧歪歪的中年危機第一世界煩惱。好好打闆球、搞黑幫不好麼？
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”。
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