J. R. 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). P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderotand, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
“The book is both breezy and sad. Ackerley’s books are candid
confessions of a good friend, full of small, hilarious
surprises.”
—Peter Terzian, Out
“The wife gets to visit the jail. The mother gets to adopt one of
the children. The stepfather gets to beat the dog. Is there nothing
for the middle-aged gay lover? At first Ackerley’s novel seems to
be a comedy about in-laws, and Frank’s indignation to be his only
and inadequate weapon against a family that knows and doesn’t know
who he is, however willing they are to take his money. But then
Frank notices a member of the family as generous and jealous as he
is, and as beautiful and as vital as his imprisoned lover. He turns
all his malice to the project of freeing the dog, but what he
achieves turns out to be darker and stranger than liberation.”
—Caleb Crain
“The writer of this book belongs to that rare and interesting group
of writers who contrive, without ever intending to do so, to make
an art of their silences. What he does produce is like nothing that
has ben written before or since.” --The Times Literary
Supplement
“A hugely funny book.” --The Glasgow Herald
“A beautifully and superbly executed novel. . . .Each page seems to
glow with what is written between the lines as well as with what is
written on them. What a book this is!” --New Statesman
J.R. Ackerley’s We Think the World of You charts an
unlikely course of a love affair.... The results are moving and
unexpected. The hinge upon which the novel swings—and shuts—is that
in matters of the heart, you must be careful what you wish for.
—Open Letters Monthly
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