About this book
***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***
- John le Carré
- John Le Carre
- Le Carre
- Fiction
- British
- Great Britain
- English
- Literature
