{"product_id":"9780743217309","title":"Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eDog Bites Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, after an evening of drinking with his old Princeton roommate, staggers out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house, steps on a dog relieving itself alongside the mayor's car, and gets badly bitten. His cop-bodyguards shoot the dog and in the process terrorize Genc Serreqi -- an illegal Albanian stud who walks the dog (in addition to more intimate chores) for Sue Nation Brandberg, a former Native American beauty queen and socialite widow of a billionaire -- and he flees the scene. \u003cbr\u003e The mayor's bodyguards attempt to cover up their involvement in the shooting, but \"Scoop\" Rice, an eager young reporter for a muckraking Manhattan weekly, investigates and exposes the canine slaying. Then extreme animal activists, aided and abetted by every other interest group with a grievance against the mayor, tie up the city (not to mention air traffic around the world) in a monumental demonstration. Also offering encouragement are the rabid, newly amalgamated daily Post-News and the state's first woman governor, Randilynn \"Randy Randy\" Foote, who nurses an ancient grudge against the mayor and hastens his political demise. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDog Bites Man,\u003c\/i\u003e novelist James Duffy mixes it up in a lively tale of American politics in which rich movers and shakers, politically correct crusaders and scandal-hungry media types conspire to bring down a New York City mayor. All the hazards of American public life are on hilarious display here, in the freshest novel of manners and most outrageous political satire of the year.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126325985520,"sku":"9780743217309","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743217309_p0.jpg?v=1763634215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743217309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}