{"product_id":"a-domestic-animal","title":"A Domestic Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by “one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time.” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished only three years after the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Domestic Animal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53627359199542,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-4165.jpg?v=1769817051","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/a-domestic-animal","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}