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Netherland gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a littleknown new york and a story of much larger and brilliantly achieved ambition. He received a law degree from cambridge university and. Unusual mixes often lead to unpredictable outcomes and so it is in joseph o neills netherland. He has also written a family history, blooddark more about joseph o neill. May 18, 2008 joseph oneills netherland is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction weve yet had about life in new york and london after the world trade center fell. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Hanss dutch childhood with his single mother, for example, still haunts him in new york. With it, joseph o neill has taken the anxieties and uncertainties of our new century and fashioned a work of extraordinary beauty and brilliance. He sees his own life, in the aftermath of a recently disintegrated relationship, as somehow.
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