Joseph O'Neill, Author . Granta $27.95 (338p) ISBN 978-1-86207-288-6
The son of a Turkish mother and an Irish father, lawyer and novelist O'Neill was born in Ireland, raised in the Hague, spent summers in his mother's hometown on the Mediterranean and studied in Britain. When he was 10 or 11, in the mid-1970s,
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Joseph O'Neill, Author . Pantheon $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-37704-3
Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O'Neill's dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing entrepreneur-gangster, that “he never quite believed that people would sooner not have...
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Joseph O'Neill, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-374-27590-7
Jones, the narrator and protagonist of this remarkably polished debut novel, is a solitary solicitor, an ``almost transparent'' fellow who cannot understand his own failure to distinguish himself. He is obsessed with one Michael Donovan, a worldly,...
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Joseph O’Neill. Pantheon, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-37823-1
As he did brilliantly in Netherland, O’Neill, in his latest, creates a character who is alienated from his home and social class, and who feels dangerously vulnerable in a country in which he lives a luxurious but precarious existence. The unnamed...
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Joseph O'Neill, Author, Jefferson Mays, Narrated by , read by Jefferson Mays. Recorded Books $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4361-5542-7
Tony award–winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife
) follows the lead of author O’Neill for his reading of the lauded novel about Dutchman Hans van der Broek and the unusual bond he forms with fellow cricket buff and New York dreamer...
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Joseph O’Neill. Pantheon, $22 (176p) ISBN 978-1-524-74735-0
In his first story collection, O’Neill (The Dog; Netherland) tackles the politics of friendship, facial hair, petitions, and spousal duties, with solid results. In “The Sinking of the Houston,” a father uses GPS tracking to hunt down his son’s...
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Joseph O‘Neill. Pantheon, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-70132-4
A Pittsburgh grant writer forays into the world of international soccer in the exciting and incisive latest from O’Neill (Netherland). Mark Wolfe belongs to a co-op of freelance technical writers called the Group. After a client complains about his...
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