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The field man's tale, from country to country and source to source, has the characteristics of a picaresque, a word I remember learning in a FreshmanxxxxxxxxFirst-Year English seminar in college.
— Jun 23, 2022 05:33AM
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Bob
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It's been a couple hundred pages since we last recalled what the hell any of this S.E. Asian wandering-around has to do with Smiley and Karla. Good personality portrait of the field man, though.
— Jun 19, 2022 05:57AM
Bob
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Giving this one another go. The opening chapter is positively wacky, with the colorful description of the jaded, curmudgeonly foreign correspondents from a bygone era. Research expert Connie Sachs' reintroduction in Chapter 3 is itself worth the rereading; what an amazing, fully drawn character. RIP John le Carré.
— Apr 24, 2022 07:30AM
