{"product_id":"the-na-ve-and-sentimental-lover-9780143119753","title":"The Na?ve and Sentimental Lover","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Night Manager\u003c\/i\u003e, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus--a charismatic writer whose first and only novel blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo--smitten also with his new friend's luscious wife--into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e John le Carré's \u003ci\u003eThe Naïve and Sentimental Lover\u003c\/i\u003e offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a foreword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, 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\u0026amp;6). He published his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eCall for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy \u003ci\u003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Honourable Schoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Pigeon Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503082541330,"sku":"9780143119753","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_44f4c56a-200e-473e-a1ba-fd9a0b70fa3c.jpg?v=1730782127","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-na-ve-and-sentimental-lover-9780143119753","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}