The Naïve and Sentimental Lover - Softcover

Le Carré, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143119753 ISBN 13: 9780143119753

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

Book Description:

'Splendid, original ... le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143119753
• ISBN 13: 9780143119753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448