The Dog The Dog

The Dog

A Novel

    • 3.5 • 22 Ratings
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Publisher Description

***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK***
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***
***PWs Best of the Year 2014***

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, 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 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
September 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7
MB

Customer Reviews

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Why would someone read (or even write) this book?

I cannot recall reading a book more cumbersome or depressing than The Dog. I came away with a keen respect for Mr. O'Neill's prodigious intellect, but little else. His satirical dissertation on the foibles and shortcomings of the modern world, while modestly interesting, is hardly worth the effort to hack through its endless run-on sentences and mind-numbing ladders of logic points. In fairness, I did learn quite a bit about Dubai and its culture, but a trip to Wikipedia would have been more efficient and less of a waste of time to achieve the same goal.

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