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Netherland (Hardcover)

by Joseph O'Neill (Author)
3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (6 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007269064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007269068
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 110,052 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Deal(ing) with 9/11 far more subtly and indirectly than recent novels...(there is) a rare combination of ambition and humility.' --Literary Review

`This multi-faceted, poignant and considered novel, which...does something momentous: it evokes life for all of us.'
--Time Out


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'Great cricket novels can be counted on one hand...Netherland looks as if it may top the lot!'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A demanding but worthwhile read, 6 Jan 2009
By J. H. Bretts "jerard1" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netherland (Paperback)
According to the dust jacket the critics loved it. I can see why but found it very demanding. It is not a novel in which plot plays a big part. In fact, it is more an extended meditation on experience - on love,class, fatherhood, friendship,and belonging. But the prose is breathtaking at times, and there are some sections of description and reflection which I won't forget in a hurry and which make it worthwhile in the end.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Totally underwhelming!, 4 May 2009
By Dr. S. White "klein-gordon" (Belfast, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netherland (Paperback)
Like many other reviewers, I read this book because of the fantastic praise it was getting and didn`t want to miss a great novel: I wouldn`t have done! Uninspiring and very dull man splits up from his family and meets a larger-than-life and actually rather unsavoury character. Some talk of setting up international cricket in New York. Nothing happens. Uninspiring and very dull man goes back to family. Er, that`s it. Yes, the writing is ok and there are one or two entertaining bits, but the total effect is severely underwhelming. I will have no difficulty waiting for Mr O`Neill`s next offering!
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125 of 144 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Wish I'd bought something different, 18 Jul 2008
By emma who reads a lot (London) - See all my reviews
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I feel almost apologetic about the fact that I never quite got "Netherland" - especially in the light of the other glowing reviews posted here. I bought it on the strength of the newspaper reviews, because it sounded like the kind of literary novel I really enjoy (Updike, Bellow etc).

But I found it really confusing. The fact that a novel about cricket has an ice-skater on the cover is perhaps a symbol of how oddly disjointed the events of the book are - and like many others writing here, I expected a bit of a mystery plot as the novel begins with a dead body - but no such luck.

I never really came to like or care about the reserved (and verging on pathetic, I sometimes wanted to scream) narrator Hans. I disliked his wife. I know it's lame and schoolgirly to talk about whether you "liked' characters but I just didn't really care what happened. And where other readers clearly found the elliptic writing and long sentences profoundly evocative, I just got muddled. The one saving grace was the subtlety of the falling-apart marriage and its strange journey back to wholeness: all in all I felt the book had the potential to be really good, but in the end I just found it slightly irritating.
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