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NOVELISTS > novelist > John LeCarre
The monsters of...
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1986.
-- John LeCarre, (Oct 19 1931-____), English novelist; He (aka David John Moore Cornwell) made George Smiley, antithesis of James Bond, famous in Call from the Dead, 1962; also wrote Little Drummer Girl, 1983 and Perfect Spy, 1986.