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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John Le Carre (Hardback, 2016)

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Recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carre, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, w an Emmy-minated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. John le Carre's new vel, A Legacy of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his vels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth; visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the gecide; celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humor, w making us laugh out loud, w inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.

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Viking
ISBN-10
0735220778
ISBN-13
9780735220775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223519862

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Author
John Le Carre
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: Literary

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Author Biography
John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Date of Publication
06/09/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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