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Paperback: 256 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007275005
ISBN-13: 978-0007275007
Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 323 g

Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A significant work, Nov 30 2008

By	Lauren B. Davis (Princeton, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Netherland: A Novel (Hardcover)

A significant work about an emotionally bleak post-9/11 that is at once invigorating and reflective. The great tragedy of that day is a shadow that falls over the characters and the events, but it wisely never takes over the novel. This is a reasonably suspenseful, well-paced book,even with some rather long-winded explanations of cricket, which I found myself skimming after a while. (O'Neill, is the author of an acclaimed memoir and a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club, and like a reviewer from the Guardian I couldn't help but wonder occasionally if he shouldn't have written a memoir-essay on New York cricket.) The writing is slightly self-aware at times, and some of the undeniably lovely lyric passages don't feel completely credible to the 1st person narrator. Still, many of the psychological aspects are piercingly sharp and the writing is both honest and subtle, although the main character, Hans, is ultimately less interesting, and more thinly-drawn than the novel's foil, Chuck, a Trinidadian self-made (and highly shady) business man who, we learn early on, has been murdered. Quibbles aside, O'Neill is a great observer of the human condition, and his descriptions of the occupants of the Chelsea Hotel alone are worth the effort.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good writing, Jan 17 2009

By	Emmaursula (Small town BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Netherland: A Novel (Hardcover)

This is an interesting story, of New York City, cricket, and the new and old 'immigrants' who love to play the game. Excellent writing, well worth reading.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Overrated, Nov 2 2009

By	stephen sinclair - See all my reviews

This review is from: Netherland (Paperback)

More a short story than a novel,this piece of work is an overated time waster. With almost zero character development,no plot,and no theme;my advice is to take a pass on this self-indulgent meaningless drivel masquerading as an award winning novel..

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2.0 out of 5 stars The most boring book of 2008
this was one of the most diappointing books of 2008. I had little sympathy for any of the characters and kept waiting for something to happen. Read more

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