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"Outlegged by news networks that never sleep, outsold by the juggernaut of visual entertainment, the novel doesn&amp;#39;t bring us the news as it once did. Or it&amp;#39;s easy to think so until you read a book like Joseph O&amp;#39;Neill&amp;#39;s splendid, &amp;quot;Netherland.&amp;quot; This wholly unexpected novel turns the city once known as Nueve Amsterdam inside out with the tale of a Dutch banker clinging to his crumbling marriage and family in the aftermath of September 11th. It is a fabulous, deeply enjoyable New York story about the fantasies that prop up daily reality &amp;#45; in other words, a deeply New York novel about that deeply New York penchant: new beginnings. \n&amp;nbsp;\nThe man we&amp;#39;re rooting for &amp;#45; and it&amp;#39;s impossible not to cheer him on &amp;#45; is Hans van den Broek, a six-foot five, 40-something equity analyst. He spends a good deal of this novel holed up at the Chelsea Hotel, the bohemian landmark where Arthur Miller wrote some of his best known work and Andy Warhol once called home. Something essential has jostled free from Hans&amp;#39; marriage, sending his ex-pat wife back to England with their son, Jake. Hans stays behind, and pours his restless, misbegotten self into a cricket league out on Staten Island, where he meets &amp;#45; and befriends &amp;#45; a Trinidadian entrepreneur of sorts, Chuck Ramkissoon. It is Chuck&amp;#39;s dream to build a world-class cricket arena &amp;#45; he doesn&amp;#39;t like the word stadium &amp;#45; in Brooklyn."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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