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“We'd have been all right if we'd been working class,” she said once, with a wise and hopeless smile. “You get sacked, you go redundant, the forces of capital run against you - it's life, it's reality, you know where you are. But we weren't working class. We were us. The winning side. And all of a sudden we'd joined the losers.”
-- The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre
We are a little over a hundred pages, about a quarter of the book, and I am reminded of how le Carre brings literary finesse to the spy novel. This is a rereadable as much as Charles Dickens is a rereadable. His writing is not particularly poetic, but his prose is compelling and full; it's a richly laid out narrative. And it doesn't hurt that we are talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
I think I'm going to need to make le Carre a part of the routine, taking up one of his novels at least once a year.
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“We'd have been all right if we'd been working class,” she said once, with a wise and hopeless smile. “You get sacked, you go redundant, the forces of capital run against you - it's life, it's reality, you know where you are. But we weren't working class. We were us. The winning side. And all of a sudden we'd joined the losers.”
-- The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre
We are a little over a hundred pages, about a quarter of the book, and I am reminded of how le Carre brings literary finesse to the spy novel. This is a rereadable as much as Charles Dickens is a rereadable. His writing is not particularly poetic, but his prose is compelling and full; it's a richly laid out narrative. And it doesn't hurt that we are talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
I think I'm going to need to make le Carre a part of the routine, taking up one of his novels at least once a year.
