The Naïve and Sentimental Lover - by John Le Carré (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling <b>author of <i>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</i>; <i>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</i>; and <i>The Night Manager</i>, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.<br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><i>I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed.</i> <p/> 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. <p/> John le Carré's <i>The Naïve and Sentimental Lover</i> offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans. <p/> With a foreword by the author.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Splendid, original...le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling."--<i>The Times </i>(UK) <p/>"Comic and touching...this novel is brilliant and marvelously good reading."--Book World<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, <i>Call for the Dead</i>, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, <i>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</i>, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy <i>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</i>, <i>The Honourable Schoolboy</i>, and <i>Smiley's People</i>. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, <i>The Pigeon Tunnel</i>, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, <i>A Legacy of Spies</i>, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.
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