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Title: We Think the World of You by J. R. Ackerley, P. N. Furbank ISBN: 0-940322-26-9 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A real snicker of a book
Comment: It's practically impossible to imagine a book like this being published in today's publishing atmosphere, but thankfully, NYRB is around to buck that trend. I mean what editor today would manage a straight face upon opening a proposal about a middle-aged gay man taking care of the irrepressible dog of his working-class lover who's in jail? But as usual, with any work of art -- craft, talent, intelligence, compassion -- this remarkable work is so much more than that. Around its droll premise, Ackerley found a way to brilliantly expose the pettiness of people, regardless (or precisely because) of their social standing. The dog, which is just as vividly alive as each of this novel's (bipedal) characters, is really only it's lovable catalyst. But finally, what makes this work astounding is how it slyly and assuredly gets funnier and funnier and more blackly though generously hilarious with each successive page. A real snicker of a book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Black Humor
Comment: This fantastic piece of high art just gets funnier and funnier and more blackly though generously hilarious with each successive page. Brilliant.
Rating: 4
Summary: A little delight
Comment: It would be hard to make the case that WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU is by any means a major work, but why should that lessen your fun? Ackerley's novel is very much a surprise in its relegation of its homoeroticism (dealt with very honestly and matter-of-factly) to the background; the protagonist's homosexuality is treated as simply a matter of course rather than as the center of concern, and what gets greater attention is his complicated relationship with his lover's family and dog.
The narrator himself is a terrific creation: sneaky, pompous, arrogant, and yet also somewhat likeable despite it all. And so too are the lover's parents and the dog herself--it all has the ring of reality about it. This is a minor delight, but a delight nonetheless.
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Title: My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley ISBN: 0940322110 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley ISBN: 0940322129 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal by J. R. Ackerley, Eliot Weinberger ISBN: 0940322250 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien, Seamus Heaney ISBN: 094032279X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott ISBN: 1590170814 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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