Silverview / John Le Carré.
"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593490594 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0593490592 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [New York] : Viking, [2021]
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Genre: | Spy fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- Baker & Taylor
"In Silverview, John le Carrâe turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish âemigrâe living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story ofan encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carrâe, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love"-- - Baker & Taylor
Giving up his high-powered career to run a bookshop in a small English seaside town, Julian Lawndsley finds his life upended by Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, who is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. - Penguin Putnam
An instant New York Times bestseller!
In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty yearsâthe secret world itself.
â[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. Itâs not that he 'transcended the genre,' as the tired saying goes; itâs that he elevated the level of play… [Silverviewâs] sense of moral ambivalence remains exquisitely calibrated.â âThe New York Times Book Review
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julianâs evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julianâs family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.