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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.
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We Think The World Of You, Ackerley Joe Randolf
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- We Think The World Of You
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ackerley Joe Randolf
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 209
- ISBN10
- 1590173953
- ISBN13
- 9781590173954
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Nature, Animals, Classics, LGBTQ+, 20th century
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- 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.