Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, by Matthew Parker
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Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.
For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica’s stunning north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here.This book explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation of Fleming’s iconic post-war hero. The island was for Fleming part retreat from the world, part tangible representation of his own values, and part exotic fantasy. It will examine his Jamaican friendships―his extraordinary circle included Errol Flynn, the Oliviers, international politicians and British royalty, as well as his close neighbor Noel Coward―and trace his changing relationship with Ann Charteris (and hers with Jamaica) and the emergence of Blanche Blackwell as his Jamaican soulmate.
Goldeneye also compares the real Jamaica of the 1950s during the build-up to independence with the island’s portrayal in the Bond books, to shine a light on the attitude of the likes of Fleming and Coward to the dramatic end of the British Empire.
16 pages of color illustrations Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, by Matthew Parker- Amazon Sales Rank: #190539 in Books
- Brand: Parker, Matthew
- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.40" w x 6.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 264 pages
Review “A wonderful biography. If you like Bond, you’ll like this book.” (Forbes)“Against a backdrop of the island’s evolution from colonialism to independence, Matthew Parker tells the story of Fleming’s Jamaican retreat, of the psychological fallout of the end of the British Empire and of how Bond parachuted in to offer solace in the form of escapist fantasy. With Goldeneye now a luxury resort and the public appetite for Bond movies undiminished, Parker’s book is an astute reminder of the price we pay for fantasy.” (The Washington Post)“Matthew Parker’s Goldeneye spies on Ian Fleming’s love affair with Jamaica” (Vanity Fair (Hot Type Pick))“This is no guilty pleasure. It’s a straight-up delight of a biographical narrative that crisply illuminates Bond, Fleming and the era when the sun was setting on the British Empire and dawning on the jet age. Parker is out to explain an era, a writer and a remarkable character. Mission accomplished” (Dallas Morning News)“Parker’s entertaining and well-researched biography dishes up a rich stew for fans of popular literature, travel writing, British and West Indian history, and filmmaking, all sauced with plenty of titillating celebrity gossip.” (Booklist (starred review))“Fans of James Bond books and films, along with those intrigued by the man behind the spy will devour the captivating stories within these pages. Readers interested in Jamaica’s relationship with Britain and America as the country moved toward independence will also appreciate the historical, cultural, and political realities and their context within Fleming’s work.” (Library Journal)“Throughout Matthew Parker’s account of Fleming’s post-war sojourns in Jamaica, and how they shaped his fiction, we can imagine Bond himself looking on and feeling a perverse stab of envy. Parker tells a wider story; that of an island and its people at a turning point in their history. Parker’s highly readable account of Fleming’s Jamaican life is less Thunderball and more Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Bond himself might have been a touch jealous.” (The Telegraph)“An outstanding survey packed with insights key to understanding Ian Fleming's world and how it translated to his famous James Bond character and scenarios, as well as a cultural and social survey of Jamaica's evolving importance in the world.” (Midwest Book Review)“Insightful and engagingly written. Compelling. Goldeneye thoroughly explores Fleming’s life and provides glimpses of his neighbors and guests, among them Noel Coward, British royals, and, of course, Sean Connery. But the book’s real value is its examination of how Jamaica and Bond formed a microcosm of England’s changes in the 1950s and early ’60s.” (The Seattle Times)“The soil from which Bond sprang is as virile as the spy himself. In exploring Jamaica, the island where Bond was born, Parker casts the entire canon in a refreshing―almost tropical―light. Through exhaustive research and interviews, Parker assembles an intricate portrait of not just Fleming, his coterie and his Goldeneye villa, but of Jamaica and the post-War remnants of the British Empire.” (Paste Magazine (Best Books of March))“Unique. Parker''s Goldeneye is an appealing Caribbean history dressed as pop culture, and he adds complexity to Bond''s legacy of vodka martinis, car chases and women in bikinis.” (Associated Press)“The iconic image of bikini-clad Ursula Andress stepping out of the Caribbean sea in the first James Bond movie ‘Dr. No’ is the stuff of fantasy. Now, Parker tells the story of the equally fantastic life of Bond creator Ian Fleming on the beaches of Jamaica, where he spent two months of every year from 1946 to 1964 at Goldeneye, the villa he built on the island’s northern coast, hobnobbing with celebrity residents Errol Flynn, Noel Coward and Lawrence Olivier. Read it while drinking a martini ― shaken, not stirred.” (New York Post)“Fascinating. Parker treats each Bond novel, beginning with Casino Royale, with respect and expertise, taking care to show that Fleming often integrated his deep knowledge of Jamaica into the plotlines. The depiction of Fleming’s own life of luxury in Jamaica, meanwhile, is mesmerizing. The book is as charming as Bond himself, leaving us a greater understanding of the world’s most famous spy, his creator, and the house in which he was conceived.” (Publishers Weekly)“The author parallels Fleming''s life with postwar events that planted the seed for the Bond character. He summarizes each of the Bond books as they reflect Cold War history―e.g., the Suez Crisis, the independence movements and increasing economic turmoil. A well-written look at Fleming''s life, though the book is even better as an indictment of the anachronistic colonialism of the 1950s and the end of the British Empire.” (Kirkus)“Without Jamaica it is safe to say, there would have been no Agent 007. Matthew Parker sets the record straight in Goldeneye, his superb account of Fleming''s Jamaica. This well researched, excellently written book tells of a rapid literary decline.” (The Financial Times)“I could not put down this story. For devotees of James Bond, or Jamaica, or the British Empire of old, Goldeneye is most entertaining reading.” (Providence Journal)“The first book to explore the north-shore estate where the author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming spent two months each year and wrote all the Bond books. The purchase of his tropical lair, the retreat from society, the way Fleming spent the latter half of his life there―these are all apparently telltale signs of a man who just can''t handle getting older. What Parker''s new book shows is how much that crisis latched itself onto James Bond, and how the defiant fantasy he provided against decline both restored Fleming and gave life to an immortal franchise.” (The Atlantic)“As much a testament to Jamaica as it is to Bond. The perfect book to understand the roots of one of the world’s most legendary cultural icons.” (Bookreporter)“Sparkling. Full of great quotes and salacious gossip. The Commander would be pleased.” (Open Letters Monthly)“Parker gives us insight into how this exotic local nurtured Fleming''s writing, as well as a glimpse at some of the interesting guests he entertained there, and a look into colonialism and the crumbling British Empire. This is Bond''s real origin story.” (Book Riot)“A sophisticated history of how Fleming’s character developed. This is the beginning of the story of how Fleming and Jamaica, that desultory duo that generated Bond novels, first made contact.” (The Buffalo News)“A completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing book―especially for anyone interested in Ian Fleming and the James Bond phenomenon.” (William Boyd, author of 'Any Human Heart')“The book that James Bond obsessives have been waiting for―a beautiful, brilliant history of Ian Fleming at home at Goldeneye, all of sun-drenched, gin-soaked, bed-hopping colonial Jamaica outside the window and 007 at the moment of his creation. This is THE BIG BANG OF BOND BOOKS―the world-weary romance, the impossible glamour, the sex, the travel, the legend, the longing for escape and adventure―it all starts right here.” (Tony Parsons)“Supremely enjoyable. Matthew Parker has created a completely new picture of Fleming, Bond and the role of Jamaica in the making of the legend.” (John Pearson, author of 'The Life of Ian Fleming')“Matthew Parker''s brilliant book Goldeneye is indispensable for anyone interested in the inner life of the enigmatic Ian Fleming and the whole James Bond phenomenon he created.” (Nicholas Rankin, author of 'Ian Fleming's Commandos')“What makes Parker''s book particularly fascinating is the way that, as a result of close and intelligent reading, he teases out how Fleming drew on the island, its culture and its post-war development for much of the atmosphere and incidental detail in the Bond series.” (Literary Review)“Entertaining. Parker makes a convincing case that Jamaica is crucial to a proper understanding of the man and his work.” (The Spectator)“Fascinating. Less a dry narrative of sandal wearing chaps paying over the odds for their Morland cigarettes than a studious array of thoughts and insight.” (Mark O’Connell, author of 'Catching Bullets, Memoirs of a Bond Fan')“Best read somewhere hot, sipping something cool is Matthew Parker''s brilliant addition to the canon of Jamaican travel writing and 007-ology, Goldeneye.” (GQ)“One of the attractions of Matthew Parker’s book is that he not only reminds us of the origin of the Bond novels, but he fills in a lot of background about Jamaica―both its political path to independence and its later development as a tourist destination. Those seeking a world of sea, sunshine, girls, rum, tobacco and self-indulgent luxury will find it evoked here―and it is this they will remember, not the Spartan house Fleming built.” (Country Life)“You might think there is nothing new to say about Ian Fleming―that every detail of his life has been obsessively picked over by biographers. Matthew Parker, though, has produced a book a illuminating as it is intriguing. Written in a quick-fire, atmospheric prose style that clearly owes something to Fleming’s own, it cracks along with all the urgency of a Bond novel.” (Daily Mail)“An amazing portrayal of British racial and colonial attitudes in the 1950s and 60s.” (Andrea Levy, author of 'Six Stories and an Essay')“The evocation of the writer''s voluptuous existence in Jamaica (and the unspoilt island itself) is nonpareil. Parker''s record of a key period in the life of the writer makes a fascinating read.” (The Independent (UK))“Persuasive, well researched and entertaining.” (The Guardian)“Matthew Parker’s account of Fleming’s experiences among the island’s dissolute late-colonial visitors―from film stars and royalty to the secret services―shows how a combination of a jet-set crowd and the exoticism of the setting inspired the James Bond books, all of which were written there.” (New Statesman)“An enjoyable, sun-soaked, alcohol-sodden addition to Bond literature.” (The Times (UK))
About the Author Matthew Parker is the author of three previous non-fiction books, Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II; the Los Angeles Times bestseller Panama Fever, which was one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of the Year; and The Sugar Barons, which was an Economist Book of the Year. He lives in England.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful. The Fleming book I have been waiting for By Maria Beadnell Well. This is exactly how things are supposed to work. I got this book from the library and love it so much I don't want to return it. So I'll be purchasing a copy.This is at least the fourth biography of Fleming I have read, and it is by far the best. Amis was too good a friend. Pearson, who was authorized, suffered from having to protect the man's reputation. Lycett had too much useless information and made excuses for the man. Parker, at last, examines Fleming and Bond in the context of an addict and of an oarless, unhappy man temporarily in his happy place.The excellence of the book is amazing to me, partly because the focus is so narrow: Fleming was only in Jamaica for 2 months of the year, and only after he was in his forties. Parker makes a convincing case that all you really need to know about Fleming is revealed at and around Goldeneye.As an armchair psychologist, Parker is honest to the point of cutting. He finds not only something nasty, but something redeeming to say about everyone: Blanche Blackwell gave Fleming adoration, but Fleming didn't altogether want that, even as he needed it. Ann gave him cachet, but Ian was new money and knew it. Ann's criticism and need for money spurred Ian to produce the moneymakers even as he ached for critical recognition, and he had the observation, if not the real sensitivity, to produce gut-wrenching stories when he was brave enough.How lucky Parker was to have Blackwell, Fleming's mistress, not only alive at over 100 but willing to talk to him.Parker includes a political history of Jamaica and of the decline of British power worldwide that makes both Bond and Fleming make more sense. He also outright calls Fleming an alcoholic, instead of pretending, as previous biographers have, that Fleming merely "ignored" advice to stop his craziness with cigarettes and alcohol.The 2 aspects of this bio that are shining stars are Parker's examination of Fleming's decline as recorded vicariously in his Bond books, and the inclusion of grainy, badly composed candid photos that give a look at day to day Fleming life.Wonderful book.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. A compelling and deeply researched account of the creation of James Bond By Christopher J. Benz If you’re looking for slight, ‘fan-centric’ anecdotes of martinis, exotic casinos, prestige cars and globe-trotting escapades - you would be wise to look elsewhere. This is the comprehensive, insightful history that serious readers of Fleming have been owed for some time. And for all of its 300 pages of detailed history, ‘Goldeneye’ is an addicting combination of superbly researched threads that provide surprising insight into the creation of Fleming’s celebrated and iconic protagonist.Parker’s book is, by turns, a history of Fleming’s Jamaican retreat (where the Bond books were written), an historical account of the island country itself, a select biography of events in Fleming’s life (including his infamous penchant for carrying on affairs with married women) and a close-reading of the Bond novels, enlightened by all of the above narratives.It’s an ‘experiential’ read. By the end of it, you feel as if you have lived with Fleming through those humid, evocative Caribbean nights, the torrid and thrilling affairs, engaged with the colourful, intriguing characters drifting through Fleming’s Jamaica and immersed in the curious combination of imperial privilege coupled with a liberal and consuming culture of open sexuality - all of these influences ‘made’ Fleming into an author with both popular and anachronistic instincts. The Bond novels’ strangely thrilling combination of sadism, snobbishness, eroticism and patriotism makes perfect sense given the unorthodox lifestyle he forged for himself amongst the aristocracy of Jamaica.As a biographical account of the writing of each Bond book, ‘Goldeneye’ is a sheer delight. The reader feels so fully informed of the context behind the creation of the novels, the personal and cultural impacts on their author, that one walks away feeling ‘closer’ to the Bond books then before.Parker details the historical narrative of Jamaica during this era and its peculiar significance as one of the last outposts of colonial supremacy for British subjects. The appeal of these privileges for Fleming is chronicled by Parker with an admirable, ‘informed neutrality’, portraying the gradual passing of an empire which appealed to the elite, but could not be sustained. The author is respectful, both in commentary and in the breadth of commentary allocated to the key figures and political landscape behind Jamaica’s gradual shift to independence, despite that fact that this development would have caused no pleasure for Fleming. Likewise the flamboyant, ‘stylish’ and in some ways politically naive lifestyles of Jamaica's resident expatriates - Noel Coward, Errol Flynn, Fleming himself and others, colour this account with humour and interest, sardonically set against the backdrop of a decaying empire.The decision to position Fleming's 'Goldeneye' house as the central character of this account works superbly, and fittingly the book continues to chronicle the story of the property after the death of its owner. There is enough insight and fresh material on all of the Bond novels (and even on some of the earlier films) to delight many Bond fans but it is the lovers of Fleming’s literary achievements, the sophistication of which has been much under appreciated, who will most treasure this highly enjoyable and unique book. If you are an avid reader of the original Bond novels, take the time to immerse yourself in 'Goldeneye'. Well researched and entertaining in equal measures, it offers a fresh and authoritative perspective on James Bond's enigmatic creator.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Parker paints a colorful portrait of the paradise where Bond first drew breath, and where Fleming flirted with self-destruction. By Bookreporter One of Ian Fleming’s teachers wrote to his mother that “He ought to make an excellent soldier, provided always that the Ladies don’t ruin him.” Fleming, who was a storied womanizer (and a good solider) in real life, established a fictional alter-ego who was always successful with “the Ladies” and an expert at Cold War-style spy-craft. In this highly readable book, Matthew Parker, who came upon Goldeneye, the Fleming retreat in Jamaica, while working on THE SUGAR BARONS, paints a colorful portrait of the paradise where James Bond first drew breath, and where Fleming flirted with creation and self-destruction.Famously, Fleming, visiting Jamaica on an espionage assignment for the British Navy during World War II, vowed to return and did so, building a villa he called Goldeneye on a high hill overlooking the ocean. “Each year, Jamaica had soaked into him, with its creative spirit and cocktail of luxury, melancholy, imperialism, sensuality, danger and violence.” By 1953, he had tapped out his first novel at Goldeneye: CASINO ROYALE introduced Bond --- uncomplicated, unflappable, undaunted by danger. Bond would become an English icon and the books’ international favorite, while Fleming would go on smoking 3+ packs of cigarettes a day, drinking to dangerous excess, and writing a new Bond thriller every year. Together with NoëlCoward, who also moved to Jamaica, Fleming, though always something of a loner, would help make Jamaica the happening place for the beautiful people: Kathryn Hepburn, Errol Flynn, Michael Redgrave, Lucien Freud, the Oliviers, and Fleming’s wife-to-be, Ann Charteris.But this is a story about the place as well as the man. Fleming (through the eyes of Bond) saw Jamaica as a sensual playground, peopled by simple, dark-skinned natives with an innate willingness to please those of lighter skin. Dodging the dreary English weather for a few months each year, Fleming was not keen to acknowledge the complex issues of race and rights roiling in his island refuge. Still, Parker points out, during Fleming’s years there, Jamaica was a nation aching for, pushing for and ultimately achieving independence.Jamaica provided the setting for several Bond books, and Dr. No was also filmed there. It became the archetype, in Fleming’s imagination, of all that was right about an empire for the imperialists: a carefree realm where evil could lurk but always be brushed aside with a round of really stiff drinks delivered by smiling servants. While there, Fleming had a long-term affair with Blanche Blackwell, perhaps the only woman who ever really took with the lonely man from a cold climate, while Ann, who considered the Bond tales pornographic, had a lover back home. Both, perhaps typical among their peers, struggled with addictions and bouts of melancholy.Bond’s creator died in his mid-50s, having perhaps done everything he wanted and lived a life that, to many, would be enviable. Goldeneye, his kingdom by the sea, became a posh tourist inn. Bond, of course, lived on; as Parker notes, at the time of Fleming’s passing, “his books had sold thirty million copies and been translated into eighteen languages.”Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott.
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