John le Carré : the biography
Sisman, Adam2015
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John le Carré is still at the top, more than half a century after 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-man - through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, to his emergence as the master of the espionage novel, le Carré has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction. This is a major biography of one of the most important novelists alive today.
Main title:
John le Carré : the biography / Adam Sisman.
Author:
Sisman, Adam, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
xx, 652 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408827925 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.914920920 LEC920 / LECA823.914 SISMB LEC SISB LEC
Local class:
B/LECA
Language:
English
BRN:
1084518