Friday, October 10, 2008

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill


A graceful, elegiac immigrant's tale of New York--especially its outer boroughs--after 9/11, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland has been the most rapturously reviewed novel of the year so far.
As a lonely and bittersweet love letter to the city and a portrait of a charismatic and doomed dreamer, it earns the frequent comparisons to the greatest New York tale of them all, The Great Gatsby.
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