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PERFECT SPY, A

By John le Carré

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| Paperback | 9780553264562

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John Le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him aunprecedented worldwide acclaim.

Magnus Pym, Britian's premier spy, has vanished -- sending intelligence commuContinue

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He's the best spy novelist.

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jelabino said on Aug 1, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Barbara [ http://www.anobii.com/anbra6/books ] makes it sound as if this masterpiece of modern spy literature was written with EFL, teaching of English as Foreign Language in mind [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_a_foreign_or_se… ].
Not so – and, as for it being "simple" (=as i ... (continue)

Barbara [ http://www.anobii.com/anbra6/books ] makes it sound as if this masterpiece of modern spy literature was written with EFL, teaching of English as Foreign Language in mind [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_a_foreign_or_se… ].
Not so – and, as for it being "simple" (=as in simplistic) and "linear" – Barbara doesn't know the meaning of those words. While nominally about the business of spying, the main theme of this book is the process of achieving maturity, the essence, unattainability and price of life-time friendships. Long after all other John Le Carré's works have been forgotten [hope not], this one, and his "Little Drummer Girl"[*] will live on as type-examples of best XXth century biographico-epical-mashup fiction.
[*] "The best recent novel about terrorism was published in 1983, and its author was John le Carré, better known at the time as a crafter of cautionary tales about the intelligence battles of the cold war."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/aug/12/le…

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ianf said on Mar 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

Simple and linear... really easy to read in English for learners... not boring but... "ordinary"...

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Barbara ABP said on Aug 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

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English Books
Paperback
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-10: 0553264567
ISBN-13: 9780553264562
Publisher: Bantam
Pub date: Jun 01, 1990
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