num_pages: 205
description: 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.
language: English
title: We Think the World of You
titlecomplete: We Think the World of You
genres: Classics, LGBT, Gay, Dogs, Novels, 20th Century, Animals, Literature, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 558
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: NYRB Classics