The Naive and Sentimental Lover
Author: Carré, John le
ISBN: 9780241322444
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Oct 2018
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife.
Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
ISBN: 9780241322444
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Oct 2018
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife.
Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
