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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
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ZIN Product Number: 10404538
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 Format: Paperback, 211 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322269
Release Date: Jan 1, 1992
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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.
We Think the World of You is J. R. Ackerley's only novel, and like all his work it is remarkable for its unconventionality and its power to surprise. In his brilliant memoirs My Father and Myself and My Dog Tulip, Ackerley revealed the fantasies that had shaped the facts his life. And in We Think the World of You he tells a subtle, funny, ultimately devastating story about bitterness and desire—and the disappointment that can hide behind a mask of fulfillment. This unforgettable book is one of the outstanding contributions to postwar British fiction, and perhaps its author's finest achievement.
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A fine short novel about a bureaucrat, a petty criminal, and their common passion for an untrainable dog
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