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The dog : a novel / Joseph O'Neill.

by O'Neill, Joseph, 1964-

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Pantheon Books, c2014.

Young men -- Fiction.

Americans -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubai -- Fiction.

Household employees -- Fiction.

Rich people -- Fiction.

Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Fiction.

241 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Social commentary fiction.

Literary fiction.

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