Kingsley Amis on the James Bond Continuation Novels 1983-1995?
Silhouette Man
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Is anyone here aware of any reviews/comments made by Kingsley Amis regarding the James Bond continuation novels 1983-1995, post-For Special Services by John Gardner - which he reviewed in 1982 for The Times Literary Supplement. I suspect there is nothing on this period in his archives and I am barking up the wrong tree, but in the hope that I may have been mistaken on this, I'd love to hear your replies on this one. I've checked his letters, biographies, memoirs, reviews...and nothing post-1982.
Did he simply stop caring after FSS (my own personal view) - was this broadside his last ever public review on the James Bond Continuation project that he was once a part of (Colonel Sun)? -{
It would be interesting if we could come to a definitive answer on this one...though I kind of doubt that we ever will...
Did he simply stop caring after FSS (my own personal view) - was this broadside his last ever public review on the James Bond Continuation project that he was once a part of (Colonel Sun)? -{
It would be interesting if we could come to a definitive answer on this one...though I kind of doubt that we ever will...
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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Yes, but he attacked LR in letters to poet friend Philip Larkin (who reviewed the novel for the TLS), he then lambasted FSS in the TLS in 1982 - then nothing, seemingly.
I'm assuming he just moved on.
If anyone here knows differently, I'd love to hear from you... -{