Ebook {Epub PDF} The Dog by Joseph ONeill

Joseph O'Neil's "The Dog" is a well-written novel with some very interesting interior monologue from our unnamed narrator. The setting - mostly in Dubai with brief flashes of New York and London - is one that perhaps readers in the United States are not overly familiar with/5(). Joseph O'Neill is the author of the novels The Dog, Netherland (which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), The Breezes, and This Is the Life. He has also written a family history, Blood-Dark Track. He lives in New York City and teaches at Bard College. O’Neill’s novel follows a lawyer escaping a marital breakdown by moving to the capital of Qatar to work for an upper-class family. His character is deeply unlikeable—possibly O’Neill’s intention, I’ll admit—but stylistically The Dog fails to latch the reader onto this ‘anti-hero’ enough to find anything compelling to keep you www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.

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Joseph O'Neil's "The Dog" is a well-written novel with some very interesting interior monologue from our unnamed narrator. The setting - mostly in Dubai with brief flashes of New York and London - is one that perhaps readers in the United States are not overly familiar with. “The Dog,” by Joseph O’Neill, is a first-person narrative of an expat lawyer in the Persian Gulf whose life is going nowhere. 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. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK***.