Dog Training the American Male, Steve Alten
Dog Training the American Male, Steve Alten
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Dog Training the American Male
A Novel

Author: Steve Alten

Narrator: Morgan Lauré

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2016

Synopsis

Meet Dr. Nancy Beach, a relationship counselor who hosts a local radio show called Love’s a Beach. One problem: the relationship guru can’t seem to make her own relationships work, sending her credibility and ratings into the toilet.Meet Jacob Cope, a walking thesaurus of phobias, a Lehman Brothers casualty who’s lost his job and swagger and now yearns to be a ventriloquist.When Nancy and Jacob are set up on a blind date and hit it off, their siblings, desperate to be rid of them, encourage the young couple to move in together. When the honeymoon stage abruptly ends, Jacob attempts to mend the fence by adopting a dog, a big dog, and Nancy flips out—until she realizes the dog trainer’s techniques can be used to housebreak Jacob and save her radio career.

About Steve Alten

L. A. Knight is the comedic pseudonym for thriller writer Steve Alten, the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including the MEG series, The Omega Project, and the bestselling Domain books. He is also founder and director of Adopt-an-Author, a free nationwide reading program for teens.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Happy

Dog Training the American Male is a humorous fictional tale about a Doctor. Her profession as a counselor is going well but, her own personal life is not. Once Jacob Cope, another dashing character comes into play, things change. The two have to blend their families together passing through all the......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Originally reviewed for Chick Lit Central (www.chicklitcentral.com) Relationships are rarely easy, especially between two people who are riddled with their own hangups and baggage. Nancy has never had success where love is concerned, despite her degrees and career status. Jacob’s past has completely......more

Goodreads review by Tara

In the aviation world, and I presume many other careers, the workers are divided into two categories: the white collars and the bluecollars. The whites are your supervisors, engineers, planners (though these guys toe the line), managers. The blues are your actual workers: your mechanics, technicians......more

Quotes

“A spirited romp through a peculiar carnival of fascinatingly fresh and ultimately irresistible characters.” Examiner (London)

“A riotous romp through relationships of the young, the old, and the restless…Comedic newcomer L. A. Knight offers a fresh farce replete with a cast of well-drawn characters, fast-paced wit, and merging cinematic story lines that triumph as a novel but would feel equally right on a London stage, as a Netflix original, or in a theater near you. Dog Training is a new look at age-old male-female quandaries but also a book for mature readers that will find more than one male looking at himself—and suddenly realizing why he’s so eager to help with the dishes.” Mountain Times (North Carolina)

“The book is funny in the best way: the humor propels the action rather than pausing it…and the prose flows like a jocular babbling brook. More impressively, the central characters transcend their stock roles and grow into legitimately compelling subjects. Incident by unlikely incident, we are pulled deeper into their lives until it is their fates (not merely their quips) that keep us turning the pages.” Kirkus Reviews

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