We Think the World of You (New York Review Books Classics)

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We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as x201C;a fairy tale for adults.x201D; 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 Johnnyx2019;s wife and parents for access to him. Their struggle finds a strange focus in Johnnyx2019;s dogx2014;a beautiful but neglected German shepherd named Evie. And it is she, in the end, who becomes the improbable and undeniable guardian of Frankx2019;s inner world.