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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The hero seems largely a second serving of Jerry Westerby from "The Honourable Schoolboy". The plot of "The Russia House" is not as intricate as that earlier novel, so readers might find it more or less satisfying depending on how they like their mysteries. Le Carre's anti-Americanism becomes more pronounced here, which flattens out the moral ambiguity that some have seen as a hallmark of Le Carre's writing. That said, stereotypes are nowhere so common as in genre fiction, helping the novelist get down to business by serving as a kind of shorthand. (  ) gtross | Sep 6, 2008 |  I have read LeCarré before and have like his work. I even saw the movie made from this book, starring two of my favorites - Michelle Pfieffer and Sean Connery. I didn't like the book at all. In fact, I didn't even finish it. It moved too slowly and just couldn't catch my interest. The style he used, switching from first to third person without warning, really left me flat. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out who the first person was. His shift to and from was so swift, it was hard to keep up. See the movie. Skip the book. (  ) DanStratton | Dec 10, 2007 | The Russia House's protagonist is the head of a small English book publishing firm. As such, he often travels to Russia on business. This leads him to getting a bit involved in some cover operations, and a Russian woman is to get him a manuscript from one her relatives. The book actually contains a lot of technical military information, rather than being an actual book. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/03... (  ) bluetyson | Mar 6, 2007 | een spannende roman, op en top Le Carré, een aanrader! ( ) snoek | Dec 31, 1969 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394577892, Hardcover)The same 3-hour quality performance for less2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by the Author Only $8.99 From premier spy novelist John le Carre, a magnificent thriller, a love story and an ethical puzzle for our time. We are in the third year of perestroika and glasnost. The place is Moscow. The man is Barley; a derelict, English publisher with a passion for jazz and a penchant for booze, who visits the Moscow Book Fair. The woman is Katya: a beautiful Russian with a mission to mankind and access to some of the hottest defense intelligence to come out of the Soviet Union in years. It source: a disillusioned and desperate Russian physicist who wants Barley to publish the secrets . . but the British Secret Service and the CIA have other ideas. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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