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The Naive and Sentimental Lover by Carre, John Le is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Naive and Sentimental Lover about?
***John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.*** Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus, a charismatic writer whose first and only novel, blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo, smitten also with his new friend's luscious wife, into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. ***''Sad, funny, captivating, and stunningly fertile, it is the most satisfying novel I have read this year.'' Sunday Express***
Who reads The Naive and Sentimental Lover?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Carre, John Le
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780340766484
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.17 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover (1978)
- El Amante Ingenuo Y Sentimental (1992)
- Der wachsame Träumer (1989)
- Der wachsame Traeumer (2014)
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover (1980)
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover (2001)
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover (1971)
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover (1972)
- The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (2000)