stephen holden (sjholden@hotmail.com)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:59:16 PST
According to some article I read sometime somewhere, the
reason for all the loving details of Bond's wardrobe,
cuisine, car, and so forth, is that England was still on
strict post-WWII rationing when Fleming began writing the
books. He deliberately embellished those details, providing
vicarious gustatory and sartorial thrills for readers whose
lives were pretty dreary.
Martha
I think you're right - Elizabeth David's cookery books did
well in post-war England for the same reason.
Re Amis' 'Colonel Sun', Fleming's widow was vociferously
averse to his writing a Bond book. Apparently she thought
Amis would change 007 into
'Lucky Jim Bond', careering through the streets of Wigan with
a gun in one hand and fish-n-chips in the other. And she
thought he would insinuate all sorts of disgusting socialist
proapaganda into the novel.
-Stephen-
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