- Friendship, Bohemianism, Man-woman relationships, Psychological fiction
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.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 495
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Sceptre
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143119753
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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