{"product_id":"a-domestic-animal","title":"A Domestic Animal","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eA Domestic Animal\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFrancis King\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781961341708\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMcNally Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tragicomic novel of unrequited love by \"one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and women both; something he knows how to use to his advantage, even if he professes to be resolutely heterosexual. One who falls helplessly under his spell is Dick Thompson, the successful middle-aged novelist in whose house Antonio rents a room. For the first time in fourteen years, Dick finds himself desperately, passionately in love, but the games the manipulative, ruthless Italian plays with him, throws the older man's previously calm, ordered life into chaos, and sees him spiralling into a morass of covetousness, frustration and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished only three years after the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK and based on the author's own obsession with a younger, unobtainable man, \u003ci\u003eA Domestic Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is Francis King's most intimately and daringly autobiographical novel. It's also \"one of the best things he ever did\" (D. J. Taylor, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e): a \"wry, anguished study . . . of love and jealousy [that] is hard to forget\" (Robert Baldick, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"A Domestic Animal | Francis King | Paperback | 9781961341708 | New | Fiction 1699633","offer_id":50828034932994,"sku":"1699633","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/718DzH_-FjL.jpg?v=1792580942","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/a-domestic-animal","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}