John le Carré: A Private Spy (UK 2023) From the Publisher: John le Carré: A Private Spy. The Letters of John le Carré. Edited by Tim Cornwell. Penguin, ISBN: 9780241994559 (June, 2023), 713 p., £12.99.
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John le Carré: A Private Spy (USA 2022) From the Publisher: John le Carré: A Private Spy. The Letters of John le Carré. Viking, ISBN: 9780593490679 (November, 2022), 352 p., $30.00.
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John le Carré: A Private Spy (UK 2022) From the Publisher: John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Private Spy is the story of that life told through the voice of this masterful writer. We hear le Carré as a teenager and then as a young man trying to make his way in the world. There are beautiful and moving letters to le Carré's stepmother about his relationship with his fraudster father. There are letters about his first marriage and letters to his children. There are wonderfully vivid letters to great actors and great writers. There are brilliantly sharp and very funny portraits of politicians and public figures. And throughout the collection there is the clear, inimitable voice of this magnificent writer. By turns intimate and comic, tender and clear-sighted A Private Spy offers a rare and illuminating portrait of one of the great figures of our times. John le Carré: A Private Spy. The Letters of John le Carré 1945 - 2020. Edited by Tim Cornwell. Viking, ISBN: 9780241550090 (November, 2022), 400 p., £25.00, eBook £12.99.
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