About this title: The love between friends, Johnny, young and feckless, and Frank, middle-aged and devoted, and their love for Johnny's beautiful pedigree bitch, Evie. These are the main themes of this novel. Throughout, the dog becomes more and more the creature around which their relationships revolve.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Poseidon Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Good. 144-X-Add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Grade: A. Catalog: Fiction General Synopsis: 158 pages. This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself... read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 1989-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Slight shelf wear along edges & lower spine area. A study in jealousy & frustration & an examination of working-class mores. Very readable copy. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Very Good. As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, edgwear to covers, remainder mark bottom edge of book, a little soiling to the book, and other light shopwear. Novel by author of My Dog Tulip. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Very Good. Publisher: Poseidon Date of Publication: 1989 Binding: Trade Paperback Edition: First Edition Condition: Very Good, Rem Mark Description: 0671678116. read more
Edition: First Edition thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780916870362ISBN:0916870367
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. [vi], 184pp [some scuffing and wear to covers; light edgewear] read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Fine. This book is in fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have not been read. There is black marker smudge on the bottom of the outside pages (only visible from the bottom) and a black marker like 2 written on the back of the cover. The cover has some very minor bumps and scuffs. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780940322264ISBN:0940322269
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Sweet condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 205 p. Audience: General/trade. Cover of actual book is shown Printed by the only mass market periodical left in America That isn't like totally stupid like the new york times book reviews read more
Edition: 2ND PRINTING
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: POSEIDON PRESS, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780671678111ISBN:0671678116
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK IS TIGHT WITH NO MARKINGS, MINOR SHELF SOILING TO PAGE EDGES, RAMAINDER MARK ACROSS THE BOTTOM, MINOR RUBBING ALONG THE EDGES. read more
Description: Ackerley, J. R., Poseidon Press, nd (1989), c1988, 1st Printing of this edition, stiff illus. wrapps (soft cover), remainder mark on bottom edge o/w fine, 158 pp, tall 8vo, 'A Fairy Tale for Adults' read more
"I wasn't a fan. Not because "it was about gay men" (I actually saw a review on here which said that), but more because I just really really couldn't stand Frank. He seemed very kind but he was just bloody annoying.
"I don't know what the other reviewers find "droll" or "amusing" about this book. A lonely middle aged gay man agonizes for the entire length of the story over the mistreatment of a dog belonging to a working class man he's in love with. Absolutely everyone in the story is ugly or stupid and try their best to prevent him from being happy. In the end he gets the dog but it becomes so territorial of him he is no longer able to socialize. It is especially sad knowing that the story is so very closely related to Ackerly's own life and dog, after the death of which he considered suicide but instead drank himself to death with "oceanic quantities of gin". Interesting mostly for it's descriptions of class in England after the war, for being written by an openly gay author at a time when few were, and for being the longest portrait of an animal I've ever read."
"Ackerley's only novel, and a masterful one. As an account of a man's love/hate relationship with his dog, I preferred it (by a hair) to his non-fiction My Dog Tulip."
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