![]() He speaks softly and intently, emphasizing some points by swinging, one of his big hands through the air or knitting the bushy eyebrows that overhang his deep-set eyes. ![]() Le Carre is lanky, large-limbed, warmly handsome, dignified and gentle-looking. ![]() More recently, in a rare television appearance from the study of his home near the edge of spacious Hampstead Heath in north London, Le Carre talked eagerly and with evident respect and affection about Graham Greene, one of his favorite writers and greatest influences. Like his written prose, his spoken words were carefully chosen, spare and dispasionate, even then conveying apparently strong feelings. In question-and-answer formats, broadcast and published verbatim, without embellishment or interpretation, Le Carre touched on his difficult childhood, class-conscious education, intelligence work in the British army and truncated diplomatic career, from which sprang the chillingly credible plots and shifting reality of his spy mysteries and their melancholy overtones of betrayal, moral ambiguity and societal decay. ![]() John le Carre has gone underground again, leaving a bare handful of clues gathered in futile efforts to flush him out.Īmong them are transcripts of a few carefully controlled interviews for British radio and newspapers after publican of his most recent spy novel, "Smiley's People," and the TV dramatization of "Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy." ![]()
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