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J. R. Ackerley

We Think The World of You

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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 un… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-59017-525-5
  • EAN: 9781590175255
  • Produktnummer: 15734749
  • Verlag: New York Review Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 217 KB

Über den Autor


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 (all available as New York Review Books). P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

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