We Think the World of You

✍ Scribed by Ackerley, J. R.; Furbank

• Book ID: 109477096
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 104 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781590175255

✦ Synopsis

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.