CD Audiobook

The dog a novel

Record details

ISBN: 0553545744 (Random House Audio) :
ISBN: 9780553545746 (Random House Audio) :
ISBN: 0553545760 (Books on Tape) :
ISBN: 9780553545760 (Books on Tape) :
Physical Description: 8 sound discs (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Books on Tape : Random House Audio, p2014.

General Note:	Unabridged. Compact disc.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Erik Davies.
Summary, etc.:	"Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, the hero of this novel leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In a Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-La, our protagonist 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"--Publishers web page.
Source of Description Note:	Subtitle from container.