Joseph O'Neill (1) (1964–)
Autor/a de Netherland
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- O'Neill, Joseph
- Data de naixement
- 1964
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland (birth)
- Lloc de naixement
- Cork, County Cork, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- USA
- Educació
- Lycée français de La Haye
British School, Netherlands
Cambridge University (Girton College) - Professions
- novelist
lawyer
Membres
Converses
2014 Booker Prize longlist: The Dog a Booker Prize (agost 2014)
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Llistes
Premis
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 3,924
- Popularitat
- #6,449
- Valoració
- 3.4
- Ressenyes
- 180
- ISBN
- 100
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 1
There is the theme of post-9/11 New York, a place and time in which a city was knocked off balance, jarred out of its routine, and whose residents, for a time, at least, found a new way of interacting with each other. Many felt a bond with the city and their fellow New Yorkers that was new and even exhilarating as everyone looked out for each other, and empathy flourished. "I think for many of us it was one of the happiest times of our life", comments Chuck.
There is, as well, the theme of disappointment with a marriage, the inadequacies of love, but the ultimate salvaging of such relationships. Hans's marriage is the greater focus; his wife, Rachel, leaves him for London with their young son after a period of growing apart, after "cultivating a dutiful domesticity and maternal ethic that armored her in blamelessness, leaving me with no way to approach her, now way to find fault or feelings, waiting for me to lose heart, to put away my most human wants and expectations, to carry my burdens secretly... it was too great a disappointment, far better to get on with the chores, with the baby, with the work, far better to leave me to my own devices, as they say, to leave me to resign myself to certain motifs, to leave me to disappear guiltily into a hole of my own digging."
It is a brutal and painful portriat of a fading marriage, but O'Neill offers the hope of resurrection by bringing Rachel and Hans back together, they having decided that it seems right to be together, and not a bad thing to be so, Rachel realizing that she "felt a responsibility to see me through life, and the responsibility felt like a happy one", and Hans feeling the same.
Chuck finds another way deal with a staid marriage, taking a mistress so as to have a relationship of excitement, explaining to Hans his view of women, "After a certain point, their agenda changes. It's all about kids and housekeeping and what have you... We're the romantic sex, you know."
The reader is told from the beginning of the novel what its end will be, Hans and Rachel finding reconciliation and living in London, Chuck meeting a violent end brought about by having a finger in some unnamed, unsavory business activity. The novel is an erudite, at times too erudite at the expense of story, journey to that final point.… (més)