

Netherland
Author: Joseph O'Neill
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/09/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Joseph O'Neill
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/09/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
I want to say something about this novel because although it impressed me and I respected O'Neill's skills as a writer, I didn't find it that enjoyable. There's a pleasing boldness to the syntax and diction, and there were a few passages that felt, well, wise, and when I gave myself some time to rea......more
Chuck is dead. The rest is flashback. Hans van den Broek is from Holland, but lives in New York City circa 9/11 with his British wife. He is a successful equities trader with plenty of money, and an abiding love for cricket. After 9/11 his wife returns to London with their child, leaving not only Ne......more
I know many people loved this book. It made several “best of the year” lists when it was published in 2008 and won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award. More than one reviewer I respect compared it to The Great Gatsby. Yes, author Joseph O’Neill certainly knows how to write a gorgeous sentence or two,......more
I don't know, I might get back to this. I like the side characters, the writing is nice, but God, middle aged apathy and anomie is just about the most boring subject imaginable, pretty much on par with teenage vampire romance. Later... After sampling the praise heaped upon this novel by the literary e......more
If you feel culturally discombobulated reading this most recent book by Joseph O’Neill (the prize-winning half-Irish, half-Turkish writer) narrated by Hans (the Dutch investment analyst working in New York by way of London) whose two main topics are cricket (as played by ex-pat West Indians) and his......more