We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.
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.
About author(s): J.
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).
Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.
Forster.
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New York Review Of Books We think the world of you, paperback/j. r. ackerley
