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A Private Spy. The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020
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![]() A Private Spy. The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020
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Издательство: Penguin
Год выпуска: 2023 Страниц: 754 Тип обложки: обл - мягкий переплет (крепление скрепкой или клеем) Оформление: Тиснение цветное, Частичная лакировка Иллюстрации: Черно-белые Масса: 612 г Размеры: 197x130x50 мм Наличие: Ограничено
John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname.
A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. We find le Carre writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security service. What emerges is a portrait not only of the writer, or of the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate and very real man behind the name.
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