We Think the World of You - Brossura

Ackerley, J. R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0940322269 ISBN 13: 9780940322264

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore

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).

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Book by Ackerley JR

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0940322269
• ISBN 13: 9780940322264
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 211
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile