{"product_id":"the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life-paperback","title":"The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Recounted with the storytelling  lan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Spies.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carr  has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carr  is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth; visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of \u003ci\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e, le Carr  endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best of all, le Carr  gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5\u0026amp;6). He published his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eCall for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy \u003ci\u003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Honourable Schoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Pigeon Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452060254386,"sku":"9780735220782","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/bd331534908001086c4f2e52be3d0644.webp?v=1778807441","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}