01350cam a2200337 i 4500 182231966 TxAuBib 20141031120000.0 131205s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013045030 9780307378231 hard cover : alk. paper 0307378233 hard cover : alk. paper TxAuBib rda O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- The dog / Joseph O'Neill. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2014] ©2014. 241 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "(a novel)" -- Cover. 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. 20141031. Alienation (Social psychology) Fiction. Young men Fiction. Household employees Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Fiction.