We Think the World of You (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Ackerley, J. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322269 ISBN 13: 9780940322264

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0940322269
• ISBN 13: 9780940322264
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 211
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