The Naive & Sentimental Lover

John Le Carre

ISBN 10: 0394473361 / ISBN 13: 9780394473369

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972

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The Naive and Sentimental lover is l love story about 38 year old man who has had phenomenal success in business and not so in his life. Suddenly and overwhelmingly he falls in love with a couple and their life style and the way they feel From hs first surreal meeting with Shamus and Helen at night, in a great, deserted English country house to Paris, where he takes Shamus, drunk and out of control, on a vital trade mission, to london, where he secretly installs them in an elegant flat, to a final desperate confrontation high in the Swiss Alps-Also Cassidy is on the great adventure of his life. This novel by spy novelist extraordinar, is a departure from the novels which made him an icon author. Book is in very fine condition. Spine has a very slight crease and in very gently bumped at spine ends. Book is bound in brown cloth over board and has gilt lettering on front and spine. There is a collection number and old price on FFEP otherwise is unmarked except for small, faded orange spot on bottom edge. Jacket is unclipped ($ 7.95) and very fine. There is a very small chip at bottom of spine. A wonderful LeCarre collectible, protected in Mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 000863

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Naive & Sentimental Lover

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First American Edition.

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Synopsis:

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.

Review:

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

'Comic and touching . . . this novel is brilliant and marvellously good reading' (Book World)

'Sad, funny, captivating and stunningly fertile' (Sunday Express)