The pigeon tunnel stories from my life
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
ISBN
9781432840037, 1432840037, 9781410493262, 1410493261
Physical Desc
517 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Status
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print
LT 823.914 LE C
1 available
LT 823.914 LE C
1 available
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Published
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781432840037, 1432840037, 9781410493262, 1410493261
Notes
General Note
"Thorndike Press large print basic series."
Bibliography
"Sources": pages 511-513.
Description
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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré 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 Fifth; visiting Rwanda museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year 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 Carré 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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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT 823.914 LE C | Available |
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Chester Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT BIOG LE CARRE | Available |
Morris Plains Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT BIOG LECARRE | Available |
Morristown-Morris Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT 823.914 LECARRE | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Le Carré, J. (2016). The pigeon tunnel: stories from my life (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Le Carré, John, 1931-2020. 2016. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Le Carré, John, 1931-2020. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Le Carré, John. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
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