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Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119753 Buy
Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9781101535486 Buy
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Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119753
Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9781101535486
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carré’s new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available.“I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed.” Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo’s bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus—a charismatic writer whose first and only novel blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo—smitten also with his new friend’s luscious wife—into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. John le Carré’s The Naïve and Sentimental Lover offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans. With a foreword by the author.
John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured… More about John le Carré
“Splendid, original…le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling.”—The Times (UK)“Comic and touching…this novel is brilliant and marvelously good reading.”—Book World
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