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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Summary |
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. |
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Leaving New York in the wake of a breakup to take a job in a futuristic Dubai at the height of its metropolitan self-invention, a young man struggles with growing feelings of being trapped while navigating the eccentricities of his wealthy employers. |
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Subject |
Young men -- Fiction.
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Household employees -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Literary. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Humorous. |
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Psychological. |
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Literary. |
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Household employees. |
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Rich people. |
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Young men. |
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Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Fiction.
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Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Fiction.
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United Arab Emirates -- Dubai. |
Genre |
Downloadable e-Book.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- Dog New York : Pantheon Books, [2014] 9780307378231 (DLC) 2013045030 (OCoLC)864789730 |
ISBN |
9781101870044 : $47.85 |
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1101870044 : $47.85 |
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