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J. Ackerley : We Think the World of You
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Author: J. Ackerley
Title: We Think the World of You
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Date: 2011-03-08
ISBN: 1590173953
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Size: 0.47 x 4.8 x 7.72 inches
Edition: Reprint
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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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