THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER
by Le Carre, John
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 055313955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553139556
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Bantam, 1978. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/NF; trace edge wear & showing discoloration. John le Carré is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell (1931 -), who served in the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6 before writing espionage novels for which he is celebrated. This work is the author's first novel absent espionage. The the naive and sentimental lover is Aldo Cassidy --- A successful, judicious man whose sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his very alluring wife, plunges his life into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity. Tale of a man caught in a dangerous and seductive adventure.
Synopsis
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover is John le Carré's first novel to avoid the subject of espionage. The novel has autobiographical elements, as it is based on the author's relationship with James and Susan Kennaway following the breakdown of le Carré's first marriage.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013472
- Title
- THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER
- Author
- Le Carre, John
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 055313955X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553139556
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/England/Contemporary
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- First Edition
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