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    "description": "<p>Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo&rsquo;s bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus&mdash;a charismatic writer whose first and only novel blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo&mdash;smitten also with his new friend&rsquo;s luscious wife&mdash;into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. John le Carr&eacute;&rsquo;s The Na&iuml;ve and Sentimental Lover offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans.</p>",
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