This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author’s use of names of historical or public figures, places, or events is not intended to change the entirely fictional character of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Joseph O’Neill
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O’Neill, Joseph, [date]
The dog / Joseph O’Neill.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-307-37823-1 (hard cover : alk. paper).
ISBN 978-1-101-87004-4 (e-book).
I. Title.
PR6065.N435D64 2014 823’.914—dc23 2013045030
Cover design by Linda Huang
Cover photograph © Johannes Heuckeroth
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