{"id":5489,"date":"2014-09-09T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378231"},"modified":"2014-09-09T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T05:30:00","slug":"the-dog-by-joseph-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/the-dog-by-joseph-oneill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog by Joseph O’Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dog<\/a> A Novel
Written by<\/b> Joseph O’Neill<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hardcover<\/b>, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Humorous; Fiction – Psychological | $25.95<\/b> | September 9, 2014 | 978-0-307-37823-1 (0-307-37823-3)<\/p>\n

***A NEW YORK TIMES<\/i> NOTABLE BOOK***
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***
***PW<\/i>s Best of the Year 2014***
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The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland<\/i> now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.
 
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la, he struggles with his new position as the “family officer” of the capricious and very rich Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the “doghouse,” a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trapped—even if he’s just going to the bathroom, or reading e-mail, or scuba diving. A comic and philosophically profound exploration of what has become of humankind’s moral progress, The Dog<\/i> is told with Joseph O’Neill’s hallmark eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery. It is a brilliantly original, achingly funny fable for our globalized times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


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<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dog<\/a> A Novel
Written by<\/b> Joseph O’Neill<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hardcover<\/b>, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Humorous; Fiction – Psychological | $25.95<\/b> | September 9, 2014 | 978-0-307-37823-1 (0-307-37823-3)<\/p>\n

***A NEW YORK TIMES<\/i> NOTABLE BOOK***
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***
***PW<\/i>s Best of the Year 2014***
<\/b>
The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland<\/i> now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.
 
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la, he struggles with his new position as the “family officer” of the capricious and very rich Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the “doghouse,” a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trapped—even if he’s just going to the bathroom, or reading e-mail, or scuba diving. A comic and philosophically profound exploration of what has become of humankind’s moral progress, The Dog<\/i> is told with Joseph O’Neill’s hallmark eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery. It is a brilliantly original, achingly funny fable for our globalized times.<\/p>\n

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