![]() ![]() But it would be wrong to see The Pigeon Tunnel as some sort of angry riposte. ![]() So there’s a causal relationship between these two books. More to the point, would Cornwell have written the book if he hadn’t read Sisman’s take on his life first? I am pretty certain he would not. Did Sisman realize that David Cornwell was going to do this? I don’t know the answer, but at some stage he probably did. It covers many of the same anecdotes and characters. What happens when a biography collides with an autobiography? Adam Sisman’s careful, comprehensive life of “John le Carré” (his real name is David Cornwell) has been followed within months by the novelist’s own memoir. John le Carré, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983 photograph by Don McCullin ![]()
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