The Pigeon Tunnel : Stories From my Life

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Call Number: BOCD 921 Le Carré, John
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 921 Le Carré, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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memoir submitted by camelsamba on August 12, 2018, 11:25pm I've been on a John le Carré kick for most of 2017, so I grabbed this memoir through the AADL/MCLS audiobook download service. It was interesting enough, but I think I would have found it even more interesting if I'd read beyond his cold war body of work. Many of the chapters give the back story behind certain novels, and since I hadn't read those novels, it wasn’t as meaningful as it might have been with a few exceptions: the woman (aid worker) who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, and the person who inspired The Most Wanted Man. Another compelling chapter is Lunching with Prisoners, which tells the tale of a man held prisoner in Beirut who kept himself sane by reading, including one of le Carré’s novels.