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A Domestic Animal by Francis King is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a novelisation of King’s own obsession with his young Italian lodger Giorgio. The novel caused no end of problems. The one-time Labour MP Tom Skeffington-Jones recognised himself as the character Winny Harcourt and the entire edition was pulped. Review copies had been sent but it was never ‘published’. After much rewriting it was eventually published in 1970. The 1969 edition is a considerable rareity. ‘Italians are not really domestic animals’ is the repeated verdict of Antonio’s English landlady. A brilliant philosopher in his thirties, he has come to a redbrick university for a year of research, leaving a wife and two children behind in Florence. Antonio is one of those individuals to whose charm everyone capitulates; but because of difficulties in his early years – poverty and the death of his father forced him to earn money as a professional footballer to see himself through school and university – he has an insatiable greed for reassurance, admiration and affection. All these Dick Thompson, a successful middle-aged novelist in whose house Antonio eventually goes to live, is willing to supply in abundance: inexplicably and ruinously Dick has fallen in love, for the fir

Who reads A Domestic Animal?

Author

Francis King

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447257899

Category

work of fiction