# The Naive and Sentimental Lover

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- Book: [The Naive and Sentimental Lover](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/the-naive-and-sentimental-lover) ([The Naive and Sentimental Lover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/the-naive-and-sentimental-lover.md))
- Authors: [John le Carré](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4132-244-4
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.