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Joseph O’neill - The Breezes - 9780007309238 - KCG0001137
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The Breezes

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Description for The Breezes Paperback. A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of 'Netherland'. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.

A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of ‘Netherland’.

Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning – it should have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but, as John Breeze is about to find out, this couldn't be further from the truth. ‘The Breezes’ is John Breeze's account of his family's most hellish fortnight – when insurance policies, security systems and lucky underpants are pitted against redundancy, burglary and relegation – and lose. John (a failing chair-maker) ... Read more

From the conflict between blind optimism and cynicism, to the urge to pretend that things just aren't happening, ‘The Breezes’ is wonderfully clever and comic novel about desperately trying to cope with the worst of bad luck.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007309238
SKU
KCG0001137
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Joseph O’neill
Joseph O’Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of two other novels, ‘Netherland’, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and ‘This is the Life’, and a memoir, ‘Blood-Dark Track’.

Reviews for The Breezes
‘What is the correct response to random tragedy? This dilemma is at the heart of Joseph O’Neill’s fine second novel … O’Neill’s considerable achievement is to render all these disasters at once deeply affecting and extremely funny … This is a novel about losers forced to become winners, and it works’ Guardian ... Read more

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