The Naive and Sentimental Lover
by John le Carré; John le Carre
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0340515929
- ISBN 13
- 9780340515921
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet, April 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Third Impression, 1993. Very Good+. Interior is unmarked. Spine is square, tight and uncreased. Cover lightly rubbed. Dust stains to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 462 pages.
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
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
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover
- Author
- John le Carré; John le Carre
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0340515929
- ISBN 13
- 9780340515921
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- April 1990
- Pages
- 462
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- fiction, English, espionage, romance, spy, suspense, thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Intelligence & Espionage; Fiction; Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Crime; Erotica; Britain;
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