Volume 24, Number 17 · October 27, 1977
Go Back to the Cold!
By Clive James
The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carré
Knopf, 533 pp., $10.95
Le Carré's new novel is about twice as long as it should be. It falls with a dull thud into the second category of le Carré's books—those which are greeted as being something more than merely entertaining. Their increasingly obvious lack of mere entertainment is certainly strong evidence that le Carré is out to produce a more respectable breed of novel than those which fell into the first category, the ones which were merely entertaining. But in fact it was the merely entertaining books that had the more intense life.
Review, 2850 words
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