***A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOK***
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***
***"PW"s 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."
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Praise for "Netherland"
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Stunning . . . with echoes of "The Great Gatsby, " Fitzgerald s masterpiece . . . A resonant meditation on the American Dream. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
Exquisitely written . . . A large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read . . . "Netherland "has a deep human wisdom. James Wood, "The New Yorker"
I devoured it in three thirsty gulps, gulps that satisfied a craving I didn t know I had . . . It has more life inside it than ten very good novels. Dwight Garner, "The New York Times Book Review"
Elegant . . . Always sensitive and intelligent, "Netherland "tells the fragmented story of a man in exile from home, family, and, most poignantly, from himself. "The Washington Post Book World"
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JOSEPH O NEILL is the author of the novels "Netherland" (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), "This Is the Life, " and "The Breezes, " and of a family history, "Blood-Dark Track. "He lives in New York and teaches at Bard College."
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 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. Author of NETHERLAND, among others. THE DOG was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L169. Seller Inventory # 025341
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