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The Life of Ian Fleming
de John Pearson
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 033002082X
- ISBN 13
- 9780330020824
- Librería
-
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Pan Books, UK, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 416 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1968. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are considerably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The author worked as Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times when he was writing its "Atticus" column, and in 1966, after Fleming's death, wrote this autobiography. It remains a definitive account of how only Ian Fleming could have dreamed up James Bond, for his own life as colourful as anything in his fiction - indeed, it shows how the Bond books were nothing less than a covert autobiography. Glamorous, ruthlessly womanising, charming and debonair, leading an exotic, globetrotting life from wartime Algiers to his beachside house, Goldeneye, in Jamaica, Fleming was nevertheless as elusive and opaque as his fictional hero - a man whose icy reserve few could breach. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 033002082X. ISBN/EAN: 9780330020824. Inventory No: 23080055.. 9780330020824
Reseñas
El Sep 5 2022, un lector dijo:
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23080055
- Título
- The Life of Ian Fleming
- Autor
- John Pearson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 033002082X
- ISBN 13
- 9780330020824
- Editorial
- Pan Books
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- BZDB5 Biography & Autobiography; The Life of Ian Fleming
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography & Autobiography;
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- Edges
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
