Fiction of Gay Interest

A Domestic Animal
Francis King
Publisher: Arrow
London, UK

Year


 		1975       first publ: 1970
Cover / size: Paperback / h 17.9 cm * w 11 cm / 211 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: 0099105209

Arbery Ref:   000264

Condition Good

Edges slightly worn, one corner lightly turned and slight leaning of spine, light discolouring with age, but binding tight and book apparently unread.

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King: A Domestic Animal






Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"'Italians are not really domestic animals . . . '

"Antonio Valli, a brilliant Italian philosopher in his thirties, comes to a redbrick university for a year of research.

"Handsome, impulsive and with an insatiable need for admiration and affection, Antonio captivates all who come into contact with him - including Dick Thompson, the successful middle-aged novelist in whose house he goes to live.

"Soon Dick has fallen completely - and disastrously - in love with his flamboyantly heterosexual lodger. Out of this ill-fated relationship, Francis King has created a novel of bitter longing and painful complexities."

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Background / Biography:

Francis Henry King CBE (4 March 1923 – 3 July 2011) was a British novelist, poet and short story writer. continued on Wikipedia




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"'I write a lume spento - the hours all seem dark.' That was how, fourteen months ago, I began my first letter to Antonio when he had returned to Florence, his wife and his two children for the Easter vacation; and that is how I now begin this account after he has left England for good. The light is still extinguished; and like a blind man in a room strange to him, I blunder about among these memories, bruising and cutting myself on their vicious edges."

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