Jonathan Unleashed, Meg Rosoff
Jonathan Unleashed, Meg Rosoff
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Jonathan Unleashed

Author: Meg Rosoff

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2016


Synopsis

National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff's charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker’s search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it—the perfect summer readJonathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him—only richer and with a different sense of humor. He doesn’t remember life being this confusing, back before everyone expected him to act like a grown up.When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan’s world view begins to shift. Could a Border Collie and a Cocker Spaniel have the key to life, the universe, and everything? Their sly maneuvering on daily walks and visits to the alluring vet suggest that human emotional intelligence may not be top dog after all.A funny, wise romantic comedy set in Manhattan, Jonathan Unleashed is a story of tangled relationships, friendships, and dogs. Rosoff’s novel is for everyone wondering what to be when they grow up, and how on earth to get there.

About Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold over one million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children’s fiction prize, the Printz prize, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and made into a film. Her subsequent five novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, daughter, and two dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah

Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. Jonathan Trefoil rents a tiny apartment in Manhattan, works a job he loathes, and is engaged to a woman who’s completely wrong for him. Unexpected change arrives in the form of his brother’s two dogs, Dante and......more

Goodreads review by Hailey

2.5* I really wanted to like this but I really didn't. I liked the parts with the dogs, and that's about it. I didn't like the characters and overall, I found the whole thing to just be all over the place. Unfortunately this was a disappointment for me. Thank you to Penguin Random House for providing......more

Goodreads review by Susan

3 1/2 stars.......not quite a 4 star but something more than 3 stars...... This is a quirky, silly and unusual little book. The hero, Jonathan, is a strange individual with a complex and highly active imagination. His brain seems to run non-stop, coming up with scenarios for fulfillment and explanati......more