We Think the World of You

J. R. Ackerley

ISBN 10: 0940322269 / ISBN 13: 9780940322264

Published by New York Review of Books, New York, 2000

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8vo pp.211.

Seller Inventory # 325556

Bibliographic Details

• Title: We Think the World of You
• Publisher: New York Review of Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940322269
• ISBN 13: 9780940322264
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself 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 easy-going 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.

About the Author

J.R Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You.