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The Secret Life of John le Carre

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"Secrecy came naturally to John le Carrâe, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: cover stories, cut-outs, and dead letter boxes. ... In trying to manage his [original 2015 biography], the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed"--

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Oktober 2023, 208 Seiten, Englisch
Harper Collins (US)
978-0-06-334104-3

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