m**c 发帖数: 7349 | 1 John Le Carré has long protested that he is no expert on the spy trade,
even though he was part of that world for some time. He does so again in his
first book of non-fiction, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life.
Sympathetic critics have endorsed his demurrals, arguing that Le Carré
happens to use the mechanisms of spy fiction to write about wider human
issues: the betrayal of friends, the psychic outcomes of a concealing
childhood, men and women and why the former really don’t understand the
latter. | m**c 发帖数: 7349 | 2 Demurral an act of disagreeing politely about something |
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