The dog

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Joseph O'Neill: The dog (2014)

241 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-307-37823-1
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OCLC Number:
864789730

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3 stars (4 reviews)

Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, a young man leaves New York to take an unusual job in the strange desert metropolis of Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la where he struggles with his new position as the "family officer" of the capricious and very rich Batros family.

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2 stars

Would love to have loved this book because there are moments when it shines like oil, but it just had too few moments, too little consequence (and too many (embedded and unnecessary) parentheses). At times this is very funny and intriguing but it just failed to engage me on the whole.

Subjects

  • Rich people
  • Young men
  • Household employees
  • Fiction

Places

  • Dubai (United Arab Emirates)