LE CARRÉ, John.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Naive and Sentimental Lover. First edition, signed by the author on the title page. A non-spy novel, it follows a young man's love affair with the wife of a novelist.One of le Carré's most autobiographical novels, it "explores far more completely than any of the Smiley books le Carré's attitudes toward love, and, particularly, the cruel and destructive aspects of the emotion" (Cobbs, p. 87).

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