Add this copy of The Tailor of Panama (Windsor Selections) to cart. $55.78, good condition, Sold by Robin Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, ON, CANADA, published 1997 by Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C.
Edition:
1997, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
Publisher:
Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
Published:
1997
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17793497566
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Good. Hardcover Good Ships From Canada 331 pages From Booklist: The idea of the invented self has been lurking in John le Carre's work for decades, surfacing predominantly in A Perfect Spy (1986) and now in this brilliantly multilayered account of a British tailor in Panama whose manufactured universe collides tragically with reality Like Wormwold in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, Harry Pendel is pressured into becoming a spy by an amoral British agent Desperate to avoid exposure as an ex-con, Harry fabricates a network of sources and plies the giddy Brits with tales of a coming Panamanian revolution Harry's dreams of protecting his image as an upper-crust tailor seem on the verge of coming true, but the more energy he invests in propping up his Potemkin's village of spies and revolutionaries, the more real it becomes and the more tenuous his hold on the plot of his own fiction The tragedy is inevitable, of course, and the very loved ones whom Harry invented himself as a gentleman to please--and.
