{"product_id":"a-domestic-animal","title":"A Domestic Animal","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon: Longmans, 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevised edition. Original red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine. With the unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket featuring a on the front a painting of a naked male torso whose modesty has been preserved by some skilfully placed lettering. Jacket bright with small area of staining to lower panel and very mild shelfwear to ends of the spine. Discreet former owner's inscription to first free endpaper; text pages remarkably clean and crisp with top edge not dust-stained and pages appear to have been hardly opened. illustrated dust jacket. A VG+ copy of King's suppressed 1969 novel about unrequited love. The novel was withdrawn prior to publication, rewritten, and reissued in 1970, following a long-running libel case involving former Labour MP (and King's one-time friend), Tom Skeffington-Lodge. Francis King was a prolific novelist and man of letters, British Council factotum, homosexual and President of International PEN. Alongside Maureen Duffy, King campaigned for a Public Lending Right for British authors. His entire ouevre has been described as \"suffused with homosexuality\". \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KING, Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53260386763095,"sku":"21357","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0888\/6753\/7239\/files\/21357.jpg?v=1775566747","url":"https:\/\/worldsendbookshop.com\/products\/a-domestic-animal","provider":"Worlds End Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}