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Goldeneye - Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (Paperback)
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Goldeneye - Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (Paperback)
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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating,
authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd 'The big bang of Bond
books... Beautiful, brilliant' Tony Parsons
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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. And as the imperial hero James Bond - projecting
British power across the world - became ever more anachronistic and
fantastical, so his popularity soared. Drawing on extensive
interviews with Ian's family, his Jamaican lover Blanche Blackwell
and many other islanders, Goldeneye is a beautifully written,
revealing and original exploration of a crucially important part of
Ian Fleming's life and work.
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