Joe Baker

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PhD in religion and narrative from Bristol University; I post about writing, current affairs, business, and more.
Websitehttps://www.jsbaker.co.uk
Work sitehttps://helios360.co.uk
LocationBirmingham, UK
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Joe Baker4d ago
Show threadJoe Baker4d ago

What? WHAT?

How can you do that, Mr Roth?

https://DrBsLibrary.com/americanpastoral

Dr B's Library: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

Have you ever read … Philip Roth's brilliant disembowelling of America in the 20th Century, and all its hopes of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss?

J S Baker
Show threadJoe Baker4d ago

What? WHAT?

How can you do that, Mr Roth?

https://DrBsLibrary.com/americanpastoral

Dr B's Library: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

Have you ever read … Philip Roth's brilliant disembowelling of America in the 20th Century, and all its hopes of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss?

J S Baker
Show threadJoe Baker4d ago

What a novel. What a way to start.

“The Swede.”

Joe Baker4d ago

Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books?

Have you ever read ‘American Pastoral’ by Philip Roth?

It's his brilliant disembowelling of America in the 20th Century, and all its hopes of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss.

#reading #PhilipRoth #AmericanPastoral

https://DrBsLibrary.com/americanpastoral

Show threadJoe BakerMar 18
Le Carré was coming to terms with discovering people he knew and trusted were two things, diametrically opposed, at once.
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The 1950s and '60s saw the revelations that exposed the 'Cambridge Five' traitors, many of whom le Carré had known and worked with - people who themselves had deeply covered over all the things they were doing, things that undermined everything he stood for.
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It's said that the novel is le Carré's examination of his own life and experiences, the people he knew when he was a spy himself.
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And it's about the yearning for purpose and meaning when what we thought was true is shown to be false or empty.
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In truth, ‘Tinker, Tailor’ is about betrayal, about friendship and its failures.

It's a story about men, driven men, about the destructive power of ambition, and how it's easy for truth to hide inside.

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We never escape from the language and idiom of the spy world, but that is only the habitat in which the characters live.