TY - BOOK AU - O'Neill,Joseph TI - The dog SN - 9780007339426 (paperback) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Fourth Estate KW - Humorous fiction KW - Household employees KW - Fiction KW - Rich people KW - English fiction KW - 21st century KW - Globalization KW - Social aspects KW - Young men KW - Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - lcgft N1 - "Longlisted The Man Booker Prize 2014"--Cover N2 - 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. 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 is 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, this novel 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 ER -