# The Naïve and Sentimental Lover - Paperback

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by **John Le Carré** (Author)

**************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.  
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_"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.

### Author Biography

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, _Call for the Dead_, in 1961 while still a secret servant. 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_. 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, _The Pigeon Tunnel_, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, _A Legacy of Spies_, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

**Number of Pages:** 448

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** July 20, 2011

## Details

- **Price:** 31.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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