The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Autor John le Carréen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2017
'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen'Financial Times
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life.
In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood.
Best of all, le Carré 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.
'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times'Guardian
'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré . . . These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind'Aung San Suu Kyi
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241976890
ISBN-10: 0241976898
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241976898
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
John
le
Carré
was
born
in
1931.
For
six
decades,
he
wrote
novels
that
came
to
define
our
age.
The
son
of
a
confidence
trickster,
he
spent
his
childhood
between
boarding
school
and
the
London
underworld.
At
sixteen
he
found
refuge
at
the
university
of
Bern,
then
later
at
Oxford.
A
spell
of
teaching
at
Eton
led
him
to
a
short
career
in
British
Intelligence
(MI5&6).
He
published
his
debut
novel,Call
for
the
Dead,
in
1961
while
still
a
secret
servant.
His
third
novel,The
Spy
Who
Came
in
from
the
Cold,
secured
him
a
worldwide
reputation,
which
was
consolidated
by
the
acclaim
for
his
trilogyTinker
Tailor
Soldier
Spy,The
Honourable
SchoolboyandSmiley's
People.
At
the
end
of
the
Cold
War,
le
Carré
widened
his
scope
to
explore
an
international
landscape
including
the
arms
trade
and
the
War
on
Terror.
His
memoir,The
Pigeon
Tunnel,
was
published
in
2016
and
the
last
George
Smiley
novel,A
Legacy
of
Spies,
appeared
in
2017.
He
died
on
12
December
2020.
Recenzii
Fascinating,
important,
pithy.
Anyone
interested
in
le
Carré
and
his
significant
contribution
to
the
literature
of
the
20th
and
21st
centuries
will
want
to
read
these
engaging
meanderings
through
his
life
and
career.He
has
plenty
to
say
about
Kim
Philby,
the
movie
business,
fellow
spooks
and
Russian
defectors,
encounters
with
the
great
and
good,
and
his
intrepid
travels
to
research
his
novels
Vintage le Carré ... [he] remains a magician of plot and counter-plot,a master storyteller
John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
A smashing read
Offers thrills of recognition as le Carré's archetypes spring to life... The 84-year old novelist discards extended narrative and writes in elegiac fragments with linking harmonies,like the late works of that other German Romantic, Beethoven
Exceptionally well-turned and enjoyable
Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be
Cagey, clever, revealing
le Carré is a master of the art... fascinatingly readable
Frank and fascinating
The Pigeon Tunnelis a delight... a collection of highly polishes oddments from a life, assembled to entertain and inform...fabulously funny
A snapshot of a story that is, truly,as extraordinary as any of his fiction
For meThe Pigeon Tunneljust confirms the enigma...extremely humorous... at no point do I feel that I knew one tiny bit more than he wants me to know
He has written anuproarious, darkly poignant and preciousbook
A beautiful book.The great glory of it is it comes close to unlocking the central mystery of le Carré
As enthralling as his fiction
Le Carré is such a good writer . . . Though urbane and detached, there is rage simmering not far below the surface of both le Carré and his new book. But then,nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems
Adeeply personal and touchingaccount of le Carré's life ... it has undeniable power
Explosive
le Carré'sThe Pigeon Tunnelisexquisite
I savoured the gravelly, quietly insistent voice of a master storyteller examining his own life
the entertaining recollections of a raconteur
Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to inThe Pigeon Tunnel,tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination
Vintage le Carré ... [he] remains a magician of plot and counter-plot,a master storyteller
John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
A smashing read
Offers thrills of recognition as le Carré's archetypes spring to life... The 84-year old novelist discards extended narrative and writes in elegiac fragments with linking harmonies,like the late works of that other German Romantic, Beethoven
Exceptionally well-turned and enjoyable
Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be
Cagey, clever, revealing
le Carré is a master of the art... fascinatingly readable
Frank and fascinating
The Pigeon Tunnelis a delight... a collection of highly polishes oddments from a life, assembled to entertain and inform...fabulously funny
A snapshot of a story that is, truly,as extraordinary as any of his fiction
For meThe Pigeon Tunneljust confirms the enigma...extremely humorous... at no point do I feel that I knew one tiny bit more than he wants me to know
He has written anuproarious, darkly poignant and preciousbook
A beautiful book.The great glory of it is it comes close to unlocking the central mystery of le Carré
As enthralling as his fiction
Le Carré is such a good writer . . . Though urbane and detached, there is rage simmering not far below the surface of both le Carré and his new book. But then,nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems
Adeeply personal and touchingaccount of le Carré's life ... it has undeniable power
Explosive
le Carré'sThe Pigeon Tunnelisexquisite
I savoured the gravelly, quietly insistent voice of a master storyteller examining his own life
the entertaining recollections of a raconteur
Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to inThe Pigeon Tunnel,tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination