{"product_id":"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\n\n\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\n\n\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","brand":"Francis King","offers":[{"title":"McNally Editions |  Paperback \/ softback | With flaps |  2026-01-23","offer_id":47350573433087,"sku":"9781961341708","price":29.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5be9d71d-8f1b-4bd9-a000-fbcb6b7161f4.jpg?v=1760457166","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781961341708","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}