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A Perfect Spy
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Forget that this novel happens to be written in the Cold War spy genre. That’s incidental. It is in every sense literary fiction and as such contains some truly astounding pages. One caveat: the male-female relationships seem oversexed in a way that was the convention in the 1980s. The criminal father aspect reminds somewhat of Geoffrey Wolff’s fine memoir, The Duke of Deception. The author’s very good at creating hateable males. He does it by making them misogynists.
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December 25, 1988
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December 28, 1988
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December 25, 2020
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I just read, in the new biography of Philip Roth, that Roth considered this the "best British novel of the post-war era."
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Yes, the blurb is on this edition. But I have found that the book has aged since 1986. It seems awfully misogynistic today. Off-putting too. Oh well. Still, perhaps for these very reasons, it’s good to re-read. Get your vaccine!
Just finished APS and as fate would have it also read The Duke of Deception many years ago. I agree with you APS brings to mind that memoir.
Yes, Alan. I suppose a con man is a con man. . . Be well.
