{"product_id":"a-domestic-animal-9781961341708","title":"A Domestic Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by \"one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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--and he knows it. One who falls under his spell is Dick Thompson, a successful middle-aged novelist from whom Antonio rents a room. For the first time in years, Dick finds himself desperately, passionately in love, but the games the manipulative Italian plays with him throw the older man's life into chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished only three years after the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK, \u003ci\u003eA Domestic Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is Francis King's most intimate and daringly autobiographical novel: a \"wry, anguished study . . . of love and jealousy [that] is hard to forget\" (Robert Baldick, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961341708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Francis King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034412216501,"sku":"9781961341708","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_421eedd6-755a-45c1-847a-8a24045ba6fb.jpg?v=1763594109","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-domestic-animal-9781961341708","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}