The Naive and Sentimental Lover

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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***

subjects: John le Carré,  John Le Carre,  Le Carre,  Fiction,  British,  Great Britain,  English,  Literature,  Book,  Story,  Novel,  Hardcover,  Paperback,  e-read,  Romantic,  Romance,  Thriller,  Mystery,  Suspense,  Spy,  Cold War,  Crime,  Large type books,  Fiction, romance, contemporary

People: Jesus,  God,  Christ. Jane Austen,  King Edward I,  Welsh,  English,  Butch Cassidy

Places: England,  Somerset,  Oxford,  Havedown,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Wales,  County Cork,  Hillside,  Beohmin,  London,  Denver

Times: 1970s