The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life
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New York, New York : Viking, [2016].
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vii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
New York, New York : Viking, [2016].
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English
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40026553136
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310).
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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 cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carr�e has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carr�e 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 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carr�e 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Le Carr�e, J. (2016). The pigeon tunnel: stories from my life . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Le Carr�e, John, 1931-. 2016. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Le Carr�e, John, 1931-. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life Viking, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Le Carr�e, John. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life Viking, 2016.
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