The Life of Ian Fleming
por Pearson, John
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- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Good
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Concord, California, United States
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Sobre este item
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in lightly edgeworn dj with errata sheet enclosed by publisher re. high court action, and his heart attack. It was at Goldeneye, the house he had built in Jamaica, that Ian Fleming established the fantasy world in which James Bond was born. He was forty-two when he tapped out Casino Royale-and began the greatest international hero-worship cult since Sherlock Holmes. It was the turning point of his career, but it had come tragically late. Increasingly, Bond took over his creator who, unable to maintain the pace set by the tough, romantic hero, burnt himself up. Fleming was fifty-six when he died in 1964. 338 pp. including index.
Avaliações
Em Sep 5 2022, um leitor disse:
Privilege and nepotism appear to have gotten Fleming through life.
His Bond character was who he wanted to, but couldn't, be.
This work recounts many of the events Fleming later modified and embellished in the world of James Bond.
Flemings important, yet safe, role with British Naval Intelligence, gained in part through social connection, is well covered.
The writer is worth looking up for evidence of the nepotism I mentioned at the outset of this review.
On the one hand, this is a ripping yarn about how a daydreaming child managed to gain independent wealth through writing about who he wanted to be, drawing upon much of his own aloof personality and fantasies in combination with detail gleaned from eloquent observation of things he really had experienced.
On the other, this is testimony to the influence of the old boys network.
It's an interesting read.
I'd suggest a different title, perhaps Ian Fleming, A life of Privilege.
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- Título
- The Life of Ian Fleming
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- Pearson, John
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- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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- NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966, First Printing
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