29
Nov/15

JOSEPH O’NEILL AT THE IRISH ARTS CENTER

29
Nov/15

joseph oneill the dog

Who: Joseph O’Neill
What: Award-winning author Joseph O’Neill reading from and discussing his latest novel, The Dog (Vintage Contemporaries, June 2015, 415.95)
Where: Donaghy Theatre, Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves., 866-811-4111
When: Wednesday, December 2, $12, 7:30
Why: “Perhaps because of my growing sense of the inefficiency of life lived on land and in air, of my growing sense that the accumulation of experience amounts, when all is said and done and pondered, simply to extra weight, so that one ends up dragging oneself around as if imprisoned in one of those Winnie the Pooh suits of explorers of the deep, I took up diving. As might be expected, this decision initially aggravated the problem of inefficiency.” So begins Joseph O’Neill’s latest novel, The Dog, a satire of the modern world as only he can tell it. O’Neill, who is a professor at Bard and won the 2009 Pen/Faulkner Wward and the Kerry Fiction Prize for the marvelous Netherland, will be at the Irish Arts Center on December 2 to discuss The Dog, about a man who tries to rediscover himself in Dubai. And he should know be quite the expert on international relations, having been born in Ireland and raised in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland.