Progressive Book Club Chooses Netherland by Joseph O'Neill As June PBC Pick

Progressive Book Club (http://www.progressivebookclub.com) announces that its PBC Pick for the month of June is Netherland by Joseph O'Neill.

(PRWEB) June 9, 2009 -- Progressive Book Club is very proud to offer Netherland (http://www.progressivebookclub.com/pbc2/viewBook.pbc?id=372) as the inaugural fiction PBC Pick and just in time to kick off the summer reading season. As one of the year's most acclaimed novels, and winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Netherland draws a flawless portrait of a little-known New York but it also tells a story of much larger and brilliantly achieved ambition, observing twenty-first-century America from an outsider's vantage point, and delineating the complexities of the American dream and its dreamers.

"The thing that struck me so deeply about Netherland is how much it is about the new and continuing immigrant story," said PEN/Faulkner judge Randall Kenan. "It's about new Americans and the making of new American traditions, which has always been New York's function in the world. O'Neill has created a powerfully entertaining novel, but also a new emblem for our time."

During this era of great change in America, Netherland's themes of identity, survival, loss, and redemption resonate more clearly than ever. Progressive Book Club joins President Obama and readers around the world in celebrating and enjoying this remarkable novel.

Netherland (http://www.progressivebookclub.com/pbc2/viewBook.pbc?id=372) is the thirteenth PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web site in June of 2008, following The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse (June), Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman (July), The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, And Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), Promised Land by Jay Parini (November), State by State, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (December), The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter (January), The Inheritance by David E. Sanger (February), Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik (March), Food Matters by Mark Bittman (April), and The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney (May).

The PBC Pick is chosen monthly by Progressive Book Club's Editorial Board, whose distinguished members include Dorothy Allison, Daniel Berger, Joan Bingham, Duncan Black, Arthur Blaustein, David Brock, Michael Chabon, Sandra Cisneros, Ken Cook, Maureen Corrigan, Jon Cowan, Mark Danner, Edwidge Danticat, Laura Dawn, Dave Eggers, Harold Evans, Jeff Faux, Eric Foner, Todd Gitlin, Hendrik Hertzberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erica Jong, Barbara Kingsolver, George Lakoff, Lewis Lapham, Bill McKibben, Laura Miller, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Orlando Patterson, John Podesta, Robert Scheer, Gail Sheehy, Andy Stern, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jim Wallis, Amy Wilentz, and Susan Ford Wiltshire.

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