PEN/Faulkner Award Goes to Joseph O'Neill

From the Washington Post

Joseph O'Neill has won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for his widely praised novel "Netherland." Set in New York after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the book has drawn repeated comparisons to "The Great Gatsby" while managing to overcome American readers' indifference to cricket, the game around which much of its narrative is built.

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