The Naive and Sentimental Lover
by John le Carré
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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
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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
May 1, 2000, Pocket
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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
January 20, 2000, Sceptre
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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
1972, Pan Books
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1972, Knopf
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*Printed & bound in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk* / Originally published, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
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