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John le Carré

A Perfect Spy Audio CD – Import, 1 August 2014

by John le Carré (Author), Michael Jayston (Reader), AudioGo (Producer)

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Language

English
Publisher

Bolinda Audio Books
Publication date

1 August 2014
Dimensions

13.2 x 1.4 x 12.2 cm
ISBN-10

1486226345
ISBN-13

978-1486226344
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About the Author

John le Carré is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.

Michael Jayston is an actor best known for his roles in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Emmerdale (1972) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972). Michael has narrated for two well-loved British authors, John le Carré and P.D. James. Michael's recording of The Constant Gardener by le Carré picked up an Earphones Award, adding to the accolades for his handling of the British spymaster's works.

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Publisher : Bolinda Audio Books; Unabridged edition (1 August 2014)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1486226345
ISBN-13 : 978-1486226344
Item Weight : 80 g
Dimensions : 13.2 x 1.4 x 12.2 cm

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Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra

Perhaps the best by le Carre

Reviewed in India on 29 April 2017

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Perhaps the best by le Carre. Amazing and seamlessly interwoven story of self, history and nation craft. The smoothness of the language is only matched by a languid stroll of a Royal Bengl Tiger after a kill. Superb.

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Shyamata Bardoloi

It is a long and at times too boring as the story meanders about and one tends lose ...

Reviewed in India on 18 July 2017

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It is a long and at times too boring as the story meanders about and one tends lose focus and the plot as well .

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Soubhik Hazra

Can be missed

Reviewed in India on 24 December 2018

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Was quite disappointed especially after reading the complete George Smiley series

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Atul Malaviya

A breath taking book.

Reviewed in India on 8 January 2021

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A really perfect book.

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Very enjoyable

Reviewed in India on 4 February 2021

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Outstanding book

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A great novel about a spy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2017

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Where to start? I had read The Pigeon Tunnel, Le Carre's life stories, and been smitten by his father, conman extraordinaire, described as the inspiration for Rick T Pym in A Perfect Spy. Le Carre treats all his characters with utmost respect and love; downright criminals are allowed their own justification, everyone is permitted a degree of mixed thought and dissembling, their private and their public persona need not accord. This thorough analysis of the genesis of a spy and how a basically good man might become a traitor with the assistance of family, friends and his own intelligence bosses is salutary.
I am a slow reader and would normally avoid heavy novels, but the beautiful descriptions, the carefully crafted dialogue and the vivid characters kept me with it all through. I think I understand people better now.

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Antony M

The perfect Le Carré novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2018

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I’m nearing the end of The Perfect Spy by John Le Carré and am already mourning the impending end of an amazing book. It’s an old ’un but many say his best. If you’ve read some Le Carré but not this one, I’d highly recommend it…

If you’ve not read any of his books, start with a recent one - A Delicate Truth, which is shorter but exquisitely crafted. And if you like audiobooks, it is a great one as the author narrates it himself and you can quickly tune in to his singular voice (which I used to find quite hard to tune into).

As for The Perfect Spy, as Mark Kermode said about the film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - it’s not about spies. Well it is, but mainly it is about how we invent and reinvent our many selves…

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RAY RIDGE

The Perfect Spy is a masterpiece of its genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2015

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The Perfect Spy is a masterpiece of its genre: Le Carre is renowned for his skill and expertise in creating characters and scenarios in this spy-thriller arena and The Perfect Spy is as near perfection as is likely to be achieved for this type of novel.
How the Book Awards bodies such as Man-Booker overlooked the Perfect Spy in favour of lesser literary works will always be to their discredit.
The high-brow intellectual claims, but in essence snobbishness of the literary elite publishers, agents and critics who annually rejected Le Carre's brilliant work primarily because of their misconceived notion of what constitutes 'popular, contemporary, literary fiction' is something only they will ever understand.
The reading public will I am sure regard The Perfect Spy as an outstanding story, a superb narrative exploration of a remarkable character displaying a level of description, analysis and evocative development of themes that may never be matched by any other tome for this genre.
No spoilers by me: This Perfect Spy, as any thoughtful reader will grasp from the outset, is anything but that exemplary, supreme Intelligence
agent, however, his story encapsulates the intellectual, philosophical and psychological aspects of that unique Cold War creature - the humanity of those that through choice and force of circumstance must bury their true self from everyone about them - theirs is a story we actually can never know, however, Le Carre in this story surely gives us insight to what creates the sort of person for whom that desperately isolated Life becomes a 'normal' existence.
Le Carre at his height of his story-telling powers conveys a depth of sensitivity that will affect every reader.

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Ayrshire Davie

My First John le Carre Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2020

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I have seen many adaptations of le Carre stories on tv and film but this is the first one I have read. I know his prose style is admired by many people but I found it not to my taste. I was frequently confused by the way the narrative jumped from present to past and back with little or no warning. It interrupted the flow for me. I found the dialogue a bit confusing too. There were times when I wasn't sure who was speaking and had to backtrack to work it out. I suppose I'm just not tuned in to his style of writing. Maybe if I tried another story I could get a better insight into his work.

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Denno

Good, but not his masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2020

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I try not to get influenced by reviews or sound-bites but the cover proclaims this to be Le Carre's finest novel and so being a massive fan of the great mans I couldn't but help get excited. For the first half of this I was underwhelmed. Where was this masterpiece, his finest novel. It wasn't here. As time passed and I kept reading I began to forget about the expectation and enjoyed it for what it was a very good novel and decent by the very high standards set by this fantastic writer. This story unravels slowly, split between the past and the present and as much as I liked the back story it didn't have that profound quality that Le Carre's best writing has. personally I found the back story of Pyms childhood (which gets far more pages than the spy story) didn't really didn't deserve the time that it got, but that is just me and my take on it. Overall, good but by no means great Le Carre.

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