{"product_id":"the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life-9780735220782","title":"The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Recounted with the storytelling  lan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.\" -Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Night Manager\u003c\/i\u003e, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. \u003cb\u003eJohn le Carr 's new novel\u003ci\u003e, A Legacy of Spies, \u003c\/i\u003e is now available.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carr  has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carr  is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth; visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of \u003ci\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e, le Carr  endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best of all, le Carr  gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780735220782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"John Le Carr\u0026#233;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36640829800604,"sku":"9780735220782","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_12079709-3f53-44a4-ad5c-d604c2181418.jpg?v=1603852774","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life-9780735220782","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}