***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 ...
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***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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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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Good. The cover has normal wear. The text has no notes or markings. The cover is creased, or has minor bend. The binding is tight and pages are intact.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket has finger smudges. Boards show no wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Jane with Best Wishes' by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete numberline. Dust jacket has a few faint marks. Book has slight softening to the base of the spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 241 p. Audience: General/trade. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. By the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts-winning author of 'Netherland' and 'The Breezes'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill, in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 241 p. Audience: General/trade. A New (Pristine Condition) copy in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket; a tight copy which was bought new and never read. American First Edition-First Printing with a full name line ending with a 1. Signed, signature only, on the Title page by Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill, in person, during the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 16, 2018. A photo of Joseph during the Festival will be included. In "The Dog" lost love impels a New York attorney to try to change his life with a job overseas in this circuitous, unsettling novel. This is modern a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai. "The Dog", a 2014 New York Times Notable Book, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014, and was a 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction in 2015. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.