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Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
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Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel

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Dog Bites Man is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, after an evening of drinking with his old Princeton roommate, staggers out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house, steps on a dog relieving itself alongside the mayor's car, and gets badly bitten. His cop-bodyguards shoot the dog and in the process terrorize Genc Serreqi -- an illegal Albanian stud who walks the dog (in addition to more intimate chores) for Sue Nation Brandberg, a former Native American beauty queen and socialite widow of a billionaire -- and he flees the scene.
The mayor's bodyguards attempt to cover up their involvement in the shooting, but "Scoop" Rice, an eager young reporter for a muckraking Manhattan weekly, investigates and exposes the canine slaying. Then extreme animal activists, aided and abetted by every other interest group with a grievance against the mayor, tie up the city (not to mention air traffic around the world) in a monumental demonstration. Also offering encouragement are the rabid, newly amalgamated daily Post-News and the state's first woman governor, Randilynn "Randy Randy" Foote, who nurses an ancient grudge against the mayor and hastens his political demise.
In Dog Bites Man, novelist James Duffy mixes it up in a lively tale of American politics in which rich movers and shakers, politically correct crusaders and scandal-hungry media types conspire to bring down a New York City mayor. All the hazards of American public life are on hilarious display here, in the freshest novel of manners and most outrageous political satire of the year.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 20, 2001
ISBN9780743217309
Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel

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    I'm a sucker for a comic novel, especially one that pokes fun at the bizarre farce that is New York City politics. Unfortunately, James Duffy's "Dog Bites Man" feels a bit schematic and dated, with easy targets and neat conclusions that are telegraphed far in advance. It's hard not to compare this satire with Thomas Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," which perfectly skewers New York City; or with Dominic Dunne's "People Like Us," both of which showed greater insight and depth in their portrayals of the annals of power -- and both of which are much funnier and more memorable as a result.

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