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Article: John Le Carre, The Spy Spinner After the Thaw;With `Russia House,' the Author Warms Up to Espionage in a Different Climate
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- The Washington Post
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- May 25, 1989
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A couple of years ago, the ice began to melt, outside and
inside. John le Carre' had been chiseling the fine dark lines of the
Cold War in book after book for more than 25 years, and now the
material had turned soft on him, fluid, fraught with frightening
possibility.
"I had never supposed that the ice would thaw in my own
lifetime," le Carre' says. He is gazing out the window of his
sitting room in Hampstead, hands behind his head. The birds are
singing in his garden. "I had written about a Soviet Union that was
monolithic, as indeed in the days of the Cold War in many ways it
was. And what was certain from the world news was that the monolith
was breaking up."
Le Carre' is thinking ...
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...Author John le Carre says the holes punched through ... master of the Cold War thriller. Le Carre recalled in an article in Thursday ... nothing if not opportunists." Le Carre's latest novel, The Russia House, reflects the melting of Cold ...
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