{"product_id":"9781101870044","title":"The Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK***\u003cbr\u003e***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***\u003cbr\u003e***\u003ci\u003ePW\u003c\/i\u003es Best of the Year 2014***\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of the best-selling and award-winning \u003ci\u003eNetherland\u003c\/i\u003e now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDistraught 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Dog\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119243641072,"sku":"9781101870044","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101870044_p0.jpg?v=1763689452","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101870044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}