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“Netherland”

By Joseph O’Neill

Vintage Contemporaries, 256 pages, $14.95 (paperback)

The literary power rivaling Oprah, the other O — President Barack Obama — propelled this novel, published last year to rave reviews onto best-seller lists when he declared that he was reading it. The storied Chelsea Hotel is at the epicenter of this novel, called by one friend “The Post-9/11 Great Gatsby.” Loss, love, friendship in a home that is both foreign and familiar, are all here.

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Joseph O’Neill will be appearing at the Printers Row Lit Fest. For more information visit printersrowlitfest.org