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Netherland

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#384576-UF1
Titel	Netherland
Auteur	O'Neill, Joseph
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Pantheon Books
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0307377040
ISBN13	9780307377043
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green boards, dust jacket, unpaged, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 instruc... (Lees verder)ted 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.
Pagina's	256
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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