He was a recluse and bloomed late – and when he did, he went full bore. David learned early in life to mistrust love, which made him a good spy. Father Ronnie, and David’s nemesis, was a confidence trickster on the grand scale (football pools, airlines, real estate, international trading, even trading on his son’s reputation – Daddy had done it all, and gone to jail many times for his transgressions) his mother deserted the family when David was a child.
A comprehensive biography focused on the writer in his youth, and his work in maturity.ĭavid Cornwell aka John Le Carré was a child of privilege (Eton, Oxford, British Foreign Service, et al) who had a rather leaky family structure.
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