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We Think the World of You

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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590173954
  • ISBN-10: 1590173953
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books
  • Publish Date: March 2011
  • Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.08 x 0.49 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
  • Page Count: 232

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