John le carre biography book
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The Secret Life of John le Carr&#; (Hardback)
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&#;A fascinating, revelatory appendix providing new insights into the inner workings of the man who created George Smiley&#; &#;Best Books of the Year &#;, Financial Times
&#;Sisman can set the record straight&#; &#;Books of the Year &#;, The Sunday Times
&#;Complex and consequential casts le Carr&#;&#;s life and writing in a fresh light a fascinating examination of the biographer&#;s art&#; Washington Post
&#;Now that he is dead, we can know him better.&#;
Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr&#;, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades. To keep these relationships secret, he made use of tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: code names and cover stories, cut outs, safe houses and dead letter boxes.
Such affairs introduced both jeopardy and excitement into what was otherwise a quiet, ordered life. Le Carr&#; seemed to require the stimu
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Suleika Dawson
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John le Carré: The Biography
David Cornwell aka John Le Carré was a child of privilege (Eton, Oxford, British Foreign Service, et al) who had a rather leaky family structure. Father Ronnie, and David’s nemesis, was a confidence trickster on the grand scale (football pools, airlines, real estate, international trading, even trading on his son’s reputation – Daddy had done it all, and gone to jail many times for his transgressions); his mother deserted the family when David was a child. David learned early in life to mistrust love, which made him a good spy. He was a recluse and bloomed late – and when he did, he went full bore.
He was recruited by MI5 and MI6 as an agent while still in school, and later worked for both agencies despite their different missions and work cultures (MI5 was for old war vets and MI6 was for idealistic university grads from posh families). He was a budding poet and cartoonist, but took to writing because he was bored. Given his family connections, he had no problem getting into the publishing world and bypassing the starving writer route. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, launched him to worldwide fame and allowed him to retire