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Review: Anthony Domestico on Joseph O‘Neill

Jun 12, 2024
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Though Joseph O’Neill’s 2008 novel Netherland took cricket as its ostensible subject, it received life from its style. The novel’s action gets going when Hans van den Broek, a financial analyst living in early 2000s Manhattan, meets Chuck Ramkissoon, an immigrant from Trinidad, while playing cricket in Staten Island. To put it nicely, Chuck is a visiona…

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