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John le Carre, 1931-2020


John le Carre, 1931-2020
Peter Tonguette
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It may not have been absolutely necessary to be a Midwesterner who traveled to the East Coast to write
The Great Gatsby or a World War II veteran to pen
The Naked and the Dead, but few would argue that the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Norman Mailer was not immeasurably enriched by the authors’ firsthand encounters with their subjects.
The great British spy novelist John le Carre, too, knew his subject cold.
Le Carre, who died last week at age 89, repurposed a fleeting, seemingly unremarkable stint in the British intelligence service into the stuff of a shelfful of brilliant novels, including a series of 10 books that either revolved around or prominently featured unassuming but keen-eyed intelligence officer George Smiley. When James Bond was burning up movie screens, Smiley was the favorite fictitious spy of the cynical set and Cold ....

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