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where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica

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An edition of Goldeneye (2014)

Goldeneye

where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica

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'Goldeneye', the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for two months of every year at Goldeneye - the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica's north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here. Fleming adored the Jamaica he had discovered, at the time an imperial backwater that seemed unchanged from the glory days of the empire. Amid its stunning natural beauty, the austerity and decline of post-war Britain could be forgotten. For Fleming, Jamaica offered the perfect mixture of British old-fashioned conservatism and imperial values, alongside the dangerous and sensual - the same curious combination that made his novels so appealing, and successful. The spirit of the island - its exotic beauty, its unpredictability, its melancholy, its love of exaggeration and gothic melodrama - infuses his writing. Fleming threw himself into the island's hedonistic Jet Set party scene: Hollywood giants and the cream of British aristocracy, the theatre, literary society and the secret services spent their time here drinking and bed-hopping. But while the whites partied, Jamaican blacks were rising up to demand respect and self-government.

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Hutchinson
Language
English
Pages
388

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Goldeneye
2016, Pegasus Books
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Goldeneye: where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica
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2015, Penguin Random House
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2015, Pegasus Books
in English
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Goldeneye: where Bond was born : Ian Fleming's Jamaica
2014, Hutchinson
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-366) and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR6056.L4

The Physical Object

Pagination
388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
388

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29481250M
Internet Archive
goldeneyewherebo0000park
ISBN 10
009195410X
ISBN 13
9780091954109, 9781448185269
OCLC/WorldCat
881018343

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