John Le Carre — The Naive And Sentimental Lover

Hodder & Stoughton 2006 Paperback, 560pp. "" I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed. " 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. John le Carr?'s "The Na've 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. With a Foreword by the Author. Tanning to the first few pages.", (ISBN: 9780340924273). Good.