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A review by jimgosailing
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
5.0
I listened to the audio book, excellently read by David Cornwell himself; so sorry he has passed away.
I didn’t realize that I had encountered some of his works along the way. Yes, I had read the Karla Trilogy (and loved it); at too young an age had seen Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold; had recently watched the BBC production of Smiley’s People (and who better than Alec Guinness?); but didn’t know when I watched the Night Manager that that was le Carre; or while watching A Most Wanted Man - catching it because Phillip Seymour Hoffman was in it - thinking part way through that this is like Le Carre, and looking at IMBD to find out it was.
So this book is his recollection of pieces of events that became the basis of his tales. But he does advise upfront that, well, he is a liar thus setting the stage as an unreliable narrator. But so intriguing to hear from him the threads that he wove into such readable works.
(Libby)
I didn’t realize that I had encountered some of his works along the way. Yes, I had read the Karla Trilogy (and loved it); at too young an age had seen Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold; had recently watched the BBC production of Smiley’s People (and who better than Alec Guinness?); but didn’t know when I watched the Night Manager that that was le Carre; or while watching A Most Wanted Man - catching it because Phillip Seymour Hoffman was in it - thinking part way through that this is like Le Carre, and looking at IMBD to find out it was.
So this book is his recollection of pieces of events that became the basis of his tales. But he does advise upfront that, well, he is a liar thus setting the stage as an unreliable narrator. But so intriguing to hear from him the threads that he wove into such readable works.
(Libby)