The Dog
A Novel
New York : Pantheon Books, 2014.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource.
The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland 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, the hero of this novel leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In a Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-La, our protagonist 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 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.
Subjects:
FICTION / Literary.
Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Rich people -- Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Rich people -- Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781101870044
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