A masterly collection of eleven stories about the way we live
now from the best-selling author of Netherland.
From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O’Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes, surprising beauty of ordinary life in the early twenty-first century.
From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O’Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes, surprising beauty of ordinary life in the early twenty-first century.
...A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK...
...LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014...
...PWs Best of the Year 2014...
The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland
now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new
novel.
