The Honourable Schoolboy
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786190043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 542 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Still "honorable" - an enduring classic and a great ride." according to BellNBanjo. This my favorite of all of Le Carre's works. I find it worth re-reading every few years. The main character is very well-developed and engaging. The moral, political and philosophical issues raised are timeless, and are not given facile, obvious solutions. I consider a book a classic if I benefit and have a new exper. Evocative and engrossing as always This is the second book in the Karla series and for my review please see the final of the trilogy, Smiley's People.This is my third copy of this work, a present from my youngest son who notes on the fly-leaf that it, in it s turn, is "A replacement for a well-used book." This copy is already six years old and is disp. 5 handicap said The Journey of a Lonely Man. Le Carre's imagination was stretched and enriched from birth by his "trickster" father. He admits to being influenced by the writing of Ernest Hemingway and other post war American writers. He employs "third eye" narrative in "Schoolboy" as Hemingway in the "Green Hills of Africa" and Conrad in "Heart of Darkness". H
Determined to restore his organization's health and reputation and bent on revenge, Smiley goes on the offensive. This is John le Carre's second book in the 'Karla' trilogy, featuring British master-spy George Smiley, the follow-up to his Edgar Award-winning espionage classic, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. A new showdown is about to begin. John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him--and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley--unprecedented worldwide acclaim.. Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action: Jerry Westerby, the 'Honourable Schoolboy,' is dispatched to the Far East. Salvaging what he can of the Service's ravaged network of spies, he works them around the clock in search of a whisper of a clue that will lead him back to his opposite number: Karla, the officer who masterminded the infamous treachery. A burial ground of British, French, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances. In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, George Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus, aka the British Secret Service
All his virtues are on ample display-- his almost Dickensian facility for characterization, his mordant satire of English bureaucratic infighting, the mazelike plotting that compels our rapt attentionle Carre has once again elevated the possibility of the spy novel. --Time . The Honourable Schoolboy is both a refinement and a summation of le Carre's work so far. --NewsweekThe achievement is in the characters, major and minor, and the correspondences, the private lives, erotic depths, furious guilts, mute understandings of hunter and hunted