EAN: 9780241994559

A PRIVATE SPY - JOHN LE CARRÉ KARTONIERT (TB)

John le Carré 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. _____ 'The symbiosis of
author and editor  father and son  has resulted in a brilliant book  le Carré's final
masterpiece' 5*  Jake Kerridge  Sunday Telegraph _____ A Private Spy spans seven decades and
chronicles not only le Carré'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 Carré 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. _____ Includes letters to: John Banville William Burroughs John Cheever
Stephen Fry Graham Greene Sir Alec Guinness Hugh Laurie Ben Macintyre Ian McEwan Gary Oldman
Philip Roth Philippe Sands Sir Tom Stoppard Margaret Thatcher And more...

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