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Ian Fleming : the complete man
- Title
- Ian Fleming : the complete man / Nicholas Shakespeare.
- Author
- Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-
- Publication
- London : Harvill Secker, 2023.
- ©2023
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-3460 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxix, 821 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be 'the complete man', and he would strive for the means to achieve this 'completeness' all his life. Only a thriller writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of profound change"--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-719) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3460
- ISBN
- 9781787302426
- 1787302423
- 9781787302419
- 1787302415
- 9781473578586 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- jb2023039992
- OCLC
- 1375543687
- Author
- Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- author.
- Title
- Ian Fleming : the complete man / Nicholas Shakespeare.
- Publisher
- London : Harvill Secker, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-719) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781473578586
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3460