Liza
> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:36:14 +0000
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] NYT pans le Carré novel
>
> [Hmm, unusually acerbic comments from daily NY Times book review Kakutani.
> I wonder whether it's le Carré's "didactic" tone or his anti-American POV
> that really bothers her. I look forward to reading this book.]
>
> January 7, 2004
>
> Adding Reality's Worries to a Thriller
>
> By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
>
> "Absolute Friends," John le Carré's ham-handed and didactic new novel, is
> really three very different books.
>
> It is an old-fashioned bildungsroman, tracing the sentimental and moral
> education of a typical le Carré hero as he is drawn into the shadowy world
> of espionage during the cold war and an even murkier world of terrorists and
> political operatives in the new millennium.
>
> It is also a far-fetched action-adventure-thriller with nerve-racking
> cat-and-mouse games with double agents, a frightening reconnaissance mission
> and a bloody shootout with SWAT teams and special forces. And last and most
> disappointing, it is a clumsy, hectoring, conspiracy-minded message-novel
> meant to drive home the argument that American imperialism poses a grave
> danger to the new world order. ...
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/books/07KAKU.html>
>
> Carl
>
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