We Think the World of You

Author(s): J. R. Ackerley

Gay & Bi Male Fiction

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. We Think the World of You is known for its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults."

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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 Diderotand, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

General Fields

  • : 9781590173954
  • : The New York Review of Books, Inc
  • : NYRB Classics
  • : 0.24
  • : May 2011
  • : 204mm X 129mm X 128mm
  • : United States
  • : June 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 208
  • : 823.912
  • : Main
  • : Paperback
  • : J. R. Ackerley