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Books: Smith on 'Netherland'.( Zadie Smith's essay, Two Paths for the Novel, on Joseph O'Neill's novel, Netherland)(Brief article)

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Byline: Jennie Yabroff

Years ago, I saw a man tangoing with a life-size puppet in the Times Square subway station. Last spring, I came across this passage in Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland": "Gripping his inanimate partner with grotesque eagerness, the man sweated and pranced and shuffled his way through a series -- of fox trots and tangos and fandangos and pasodobles ... There was something dire going on--something that went beyond the desperation, economic and artistic, discernible on the man's damp features, beyond even the sexual perverseness of his routine." I felt that shiver of ...

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