| We Think the World of You Contributor(s): Ackerley, J. R. (Author), Furbank, P. N. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590173953 ISBN-13: 9781590173954 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011507213 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.08" W x 7.97" (0.49 lbs) 209 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly easygoing nature. When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank gets caught up in a struggle with Johnny's wife and parents for access to him. Their struggle finds a strange focus in Johnny's dog--a beautiful but neglected German shepherd named Evie. And it is she, in the end, who becomes the improbable and undeniable guardian of Frank's inner world. |