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      The Naive and Sentimental Lover

      by John Le Carre
      Published
      Dec 1971
      Main Genre
      Suspense Suspense
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      518
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      "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 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.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Literary

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      First Edition Dec 1971 Knopf ISBN13 9780394473369 ISBN10 0394473361
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      Jan 1992 John Curley & Assoc ISBN13 9780792710059 ISBN10 0792710053
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