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02922aam a22004578i 4500 001 9592C23A223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 230724t20242024nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023033934 020 $a 0593701321 020 $a 9780593701324 035 $a (OCoLC)1392344578 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d VRP $d RNL $d MWD $d OCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a O'Neill, Joseph, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Godwin / $c Joseph O'Neill. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 277 pages ; $b 25 cm. 520 $a "Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the UK by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a richer man, Geoff is now a fast-talking soccer agent, who pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to find an elusive prospect known only as "Godwin"--an African teenager Geoff believes will be the next Pele. All they have to go on is a video of Godwin; they don't even know which country it was shot in. Narrated in turns by the intellectually rigorous yet self-thwarting Mark, and Lakesha Williams, the conscientious leader of the writers' collective where he works, the novel becomes a twisty international adventure that is part heart-of-darkness and part American Main Street in the 2010s--deliciously far-flung geographically, ethically, and emotionally. Godwin immerses us in the hazy world of high-stakes soccer-recruiting and the beautiful game itself, weaving the search for Godwin together with the moving story of Mark's mixed-race family and Lakesha's surprising path into their lives."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Soccer $x Scouting $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racially mixed families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a International travel $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Brothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Soccer players $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fortune $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Brothers $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Soccer players $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Fate and fatalism $v Fiction. $2 sears 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Sports fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 776 08 $i Online version: $a O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- $t Godwin $b First edition. $d New York : Pantheon Books, 2024 $z 9780593701331 $w (DLC) 2023033935 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240604014557.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9592C23A223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search