18ck 's review for:

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

4.0

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Reviews on Amazon for this seem very mixed, but you can put me in the thumbs-up camp. Its view of New York from an outsider's point of view seemed very believable, and the sense of an immigrant world going on in its shadows - drawn to its possibilities while keeping a distance from its less-pretty traits - was nicely drawn. And then there are the various tangents leading you off into discussions of something-or-other that seems to catch the author's fancy. What's not to like?