Imprint: Viking
Published: 13/10/2022
ISBN: 9780241550090
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 40mm x 156mm
Weight: 750g
RRP: £25.00
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years
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.
Imprint: Viking
Published: 13/10/2022
ISBN: 9780241550090
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 40mm x 156mm
Weight: 750g
RRP: £25.00
The finest, wisest storyteller
A towering writer
A literary giant
[He had a]rare command of language and unique understanding of how the world really works