Ian Fleming : the complete man
Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-2023
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Here is a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. 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.
Ian Fleming : the complete man / Nicholas Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-, author
London : Harvill Secker, 2023.
886 pages ; 24 cm
9781787302419 (hbk)
823.914BFLE
English
1277522