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Le Carré, John. The Pigeon Tunnel - Stories of my Life. [Signed !] UK, Viking, 2016. 310 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by author John Le Carré on the titlepage.
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John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include A Most Wanted Man, Our Kind of Traitor and A Delicate Truth.
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Fascinating, important, pithy. Anyone interested in le Carre and his significant contribution to the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries will want to read these engaging meanderings through his life and career.He has plenty to say about Kim Philby, the movie business, fellow spooks and Russian defectors, encounters with the great and good, and his intrepid travels to research his novels -- William Boyd * Guardian * Vintage le Carre ... [he] remains a magician of plot and counter-plot, a master storyteller * Observer * John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen * Financial Times * When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind * Aung San Suu Kyi * No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times * Guardian * A smashing read -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Wall Street Journal * Offers thrills of recognition as le Carre's archetypes spring to life... The 84-year old novelist discards extended narrative and writes in elegiac fragments with linking harmonies, like the late works of that other German Romantic, Beethoven -- John Gapper * Financial Times * Exceptionally well-turned and enjoyable -- David Sexton * Evening Standard * Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be * Sunday Telegraph * Cagey, clever, revealing * Daily Telegraph * le Carre is a master of the art... fascinatingly readable * The Times * Frank and fascinating * Daily Express * The Pigeon Tunnel is a delight... a collection of highly polishes oddments from a life, assembled to entertain and inform...fabulously funny * Radio Times * A snapshot of a story that is, truly, as extraordinary as any of his fiction * Daily Mail * For me The Pigeon Tunnel just confirms the enigma... extremely humorous... at no point do I feel that I knew one tiny bit more than he wants me to know -- Susanne Bier, director of The Night Manager He has written an uproarious, darkly poignant and precious book -- James Naughtie * New Statesman * A beautiful book. The great glory of it is it comes close to unlocking the central mystery of le Carre -- Tony Parsons As enthralling as his fiction * Woman and Home * Le Carre is such a good writer . . . Though urbane and detached, there is rage simmering not far below the surface of both le Carre and his new book. But then, nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems * Daily Mail * A deeply personal and touching account of le Carre's life ... it has undeniable power * Prospect * Explosive * Daily Mail * le Carre's The Pigeon Tunnel is exquisite -- Hugh Laurie I savoured the gravelly, quietly insistent voice of a master storyteller examining his own life -- Michela Wrong * The Spectator * the entertaining recollections of a raconteur -- Neil McCormick * Telegraph * Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to in The Pigeon Tunnel, tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination -- Tim Adams * Guardian Biographies of the Year *
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0241257557
- ISBN 13 9780241257555
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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