Review: Anthony Domestico on Joseph O‘Neill
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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