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The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

A Novel

A Novel

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

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Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119753

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    About The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

    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.

    “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.

    About The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

    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.

    “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.

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    About John le Carré

    JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found… More about John le Carré

    About John le Carré

    JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found… More about John le Carré

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 20, 2011 | 448 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780143119753

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 20, 2011 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9781101535486

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    Praise

    “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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