The Naive and Sentimental Lover
About this book
John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.
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.
''Sad, funny, captivating, and stunningly fertile, it is the most satisfying novel I have read this year.'' Sunday Express
Subjects
- bohemianism
- book
- british
- cold war
- crime
- english
- e-read
- fiction
- fiction, romance, contemporary
- friendship
- great britain
- hardcover
- interpersonal relations
- john le carre
- john le carré
- large type books
- le carre
- literature
- mystery
- novel
- paperback
- psychological fiction
- romance
- romantic
- spy
- story
- suspense
- thriller