The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
by:
John le Carré (author)
"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now."From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to...
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"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now."From 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 cus
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780241976876 (0241976871)
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
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