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[John le Carré] ✓ The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life will appreciate this amazing collection of vignettes M. Suriani I'm not sure anyone under fifty, even LeCarre fans, will appreciate this amazing collection of vignettes. Two things stand out: first, this man has been a true witness to the makings of modern history and second, his life has been an adventure to match any he describes herein.While much of his success (in life in general) has been the result of putting a p. Not quite an autobiography This is a very interesting book by a novelist who
| Title | : | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735220778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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 genocide; 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 Carré endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting u
will appreciate this amazing collection of vignettes M. Suriani I'm not sure anyone under fifty, even LeCarre fans, will appreciate this amazing collection of vignettes. Two things stand out: first, this man has been a true witness to the makings of modern history and second, his life has been an adventure to match any he describes herein.While much of his success (in life in general) has been the result of putting a p. Not quite an autobiography This is a very interesting book by a novelist who can remember what he wrote and what were the influences that motivated him. I have enjoyed reading and rereading LeCarre's books for half a century. George Smiley is perhaps the most important literary figure of the Cold War. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold was and probably still is the book that exposes . "Disappointing" according to Dakotadoc. As a long time fan of Mr. Le Carre, I finished the book felling that, of his personal life, he remains a spy. The only story he tells that intrigued me was about his father, something I'd read a while ago, perhaps in the New Yorker or heard in interviews. I would have loved to have read more about the Nazis in German government after the war, but all I got
He divides his time between London and Cornwall. . For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. John le Carré 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
As ever, le Carré’s prose is fluid, carrying the reader toward an inevitable yet nail-biting climax.” —Olen Steinhauer, The New York Times Book Review (front page)“Timelier than ever.” —The New York Times “Well-wrought A sharply sketched gallery of characters.”—The Wall Street Journal “Le Carré is fiercely modern. He has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Magazine“The narrative dominoes fall with masterly precisio
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