The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel

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Price
$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Publish Date
Pages
624
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 1.3 inches | 1.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780143119739

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About the Author
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.
Reviews
"Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace."--The New York Times

"Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action...one of the finest English novels of the seventies."--The Times (UK)

"All the good things are there: the Balkan complexities of plot; the Dickensian profusion of idiosyncratic characters; and above all, le Carré's glistening social observation."--Time

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