The honourable schoolboy / John le Carré.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143119739 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0143119737 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xv, 606 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A novel"--Cover. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1977. Includes the author's 1989 introduction. |
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Subject: | Smiley, George (Fictitious character) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Spy stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | PR 6062 .E33 H66 2011 | 30775305486541 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Honourable Schoolboy : A George Smiley Novel
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead , in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , The Honourable Schoolboy , and Smiley's People . At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel , was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies , appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.