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Bezig met laden... This Is the Lifedoor Joseph O'Neill
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I can't remember much about this book, after all the years since I read it. ( ) The blurb on the back cover doesn't really do this book justice. Having said that, my husband asked me what it was about and my own description at the time seemed rather unprepossessing too. You just have to read it - the skill is in the writing, the constant humour, and the voice of the narrator who starts off as an average bloke, a bit socially inept, but becomes ever so slightly creepy as the book goes on. It reminded me a lot of Zoe Heller's excellent 'Notes on a Scandal'. It's hilarious in a cringemaking way - the narrator lurches from one social embarrassment to another, including a particularly toe-curling lavatorial incident. An intriguing mystery is set up, too, and I would have given the book five stars had this been tied up in a more efficient manner. It's one of those books where an awful lot is left to the reader to interpret. I think I understood it, but I guess I will never know for sure whether my interpretation was right. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The debut novel from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'. James Jones is slipping steadily through life. He has a steady job as a junior partner at a solicitor's firm, a steady girlfriend and a steady mortgage. Nothing much is happening in Jones's life but he really doesn't mind - this is exactly the way he likes it. Michael Donovan, meanwhile, is a star - a world-class international lawyer and advocate - he's everything Jones wanted to be and isn't. Jones was once Donovan's pupil and, for a while, it looked like he too would make his name - but he left that high-powered world behind a long time ago, or so he thought. One day Jones reads in the paper that Donovan has collapsed in court - then, out of the blue, Donovan contacts him; he has a job he needs Jones to work on... Joseph O'Neill's debut is wonderfully clever and comic novel - about ambitions and aspirations and the realities that they inevitably collide with. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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