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A Domestic Animal
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A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by 'one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time.' (The Scotsman) Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at...
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A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by 'one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time.' (The Scotsman)
Antonio 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.
Published only three years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, A Domestic Animal 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, The Daily Telegraph).
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781961341708
Publisher: McNally Jackson Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 February 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: McNally Jackson Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Rumaan Alam
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Francis King (1923-2011) was born in Switzerland, spent his childhood in India, and was educated in England. While still an undergraduate at Oxford, he completed his first novel, The Dark Tower, which was published in 1946. He worked for the British Council for 15 years in Italy, Greece, Finland, and Japan successively while also regularly publishing novels, poems, and short stories. In 1966, he returned to England and became a full-time writer and critic. He published more than 50 books, the accolades for which include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize, and the Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. Twice nominated for the Booker Prize, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of PEN International.
Rumaan Alam is the author of four novels. He lives in New York City.
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