Condition: Brand new, still shrink wrapped, green full leather edition with ornate covers and title in gold on the spine. This is standard Easton Press quality with gold page edges, full grain cowhide leather, cloth end pages and silk page marker. This is a mint copy that is still in the publisher's shipping box. Author's signature is in ink. Book size 5.50 by 9.25 inches tall, 340 pages.
Publication and Reviews (from Wikipedia)
The writing of Netherland occupied O'Neill for seven years. When it was finished, O'Neill had great trouble in finding an agent. The book was turned down by every major US publisher, until it was accepted by Pantheon Books, a part of Random House. Chief executive Sonny Mehta was a cricket fan, and after reading Netherland, Mehta wrote a strong personal recommendation to booksellers.
Netherland was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where Dwight Garner (NYTBR senior editor) called it "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".[3] Later that year, the book was included in the prestigious New York Times Book Review list of "10 Best Books of 2008" as chosen by the paper's editors.
James Wood, writing inThe New Yorker, called it "one of the most remarkablepostcolonialbooks I have ever read". He wrote that it has been "consistently misread as a 9/11 novel, which stints what is most remarkable about it: that it is a postcolonial re-writing ofThe Great Gatsby."In an interview with the author published at the end of the Harper Perennial paperback edition, Joseph O'Neill remarks, "ClearlyNetherlandis having some sort of conversation withThe Great Gatsby—saying goodbye to it perhaps, and to some of the notions associated with that wonderful book
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