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发表于2024-12-22
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In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an “other” New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck’s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah--by his ability to a hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.
Netherland gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsider’s vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers. Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man--of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory. Joseph O’Neill’s prose, in its conscientiousness and beauty, involves us utterly in the struggle for meaning that governs any single life.
Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer.
O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964, and grew up in The Netherlands. He is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, and a barrister at the English Bar, where he practised for ten years, principally in the field of business law. He now lives in New York with his wife, Vogue editor Sally Singer, and their three sons.
O'Neill is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, Netherland, was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where it was called, "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell". He is also the author of a non-fiction book, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the Economist and the Irish Times.
O'Neill writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the Atlantic Monthly.
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评分啰啰嗦嗦唧唧歪歪的中年危机第一世界烦恼。好好打板球、搞黑帮不好么?
评分ISBN 9780007275700
评分ISBN 9780007275700
评分lyrically lame
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评分纽约河道里发现特立尼达人恰克•拉姆克森的尸体,这个不被人关注又迟到的新闻,却勾起在伦敦一家银行工作的荷兰人汉斯•范•登•布鲁克对于往日的回忆。尽管事情发生在震惊世界的美国911袭击事件之后,造成的伤害却无可避免的影响了所有的人,至少是身在纽约的汉斯一家...
评分这本书读得很慢,原因是这又是一本以传达情绪为主的书,而对于这种情绪的理解离开了特定的环境又变得非常困难。更糟糕的是,作为情绪情节线索的板球又是一种我这辈子都没见过的运动,而且即使见过,对于我这种对棒球规则都感觉费劲的人来说,也不可能有很正确的把握和很深刻的...
评分“绿光”二字不是平白说的,典出菲茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》:挥金如土的盖茨比平日欢歌纵饮,但内心真正的牵绊却是河对岸一盏小小的绿灯发出的幽光——那里有他梦想的化身。爱尔兰作家约瑟夫•奥尼尔写了一部关于美国纽约的小说《地之国》,有论者誉之为后殖民版的《了...
评分“If you love him, bring him to NewYork, for it's heaven. If you hate him, bring him to NewYork, for it's hell”(如果你爱他,那就送他去纽约,因为那是天堂;如果你恨他,那就送他去纽约,因为那是地狱)这是一段很多中国人都熟悉的纽约的谚语,虽然随着《北京人在纽...
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