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In several of the books, including “Thunderball” (1961), “Quantum of Solace” (1960) and “Goldfinger” (1959), ethnicities have been removed. His mouth was dry.” This has been revised to “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.” A segment in the book describing accented dialogue as “straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in,” has been removed. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. A commonly used pejorative term used for Black people by Fleming, whose Bond books were published between 19, has been removed almost entirely and replaced with “Black person” or “Black man.” In other instances, references have been edited.įor example, in “Live and Let Die” (1954), Bond’s opinion of Africans in the gold and diamond trades as “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they’ve drunk too much” has been altered to “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.”Īnother scene in the book, set during a strip tease at a Harlem nightclub, was originally “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. All of this goes some way towards explaining why and how it is that she’s come to have so much success, both nationally and internationally. Allowing her stories to come alive, the narratives that she creates flow effortlessly along, capturing a number of different themes and ideas. 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Carr’s lipstick, a magenta with blue undertones that subtly clashed with her coral dress, the same one she had worn to Lucy’s wedding nearly five years ago. Instead, I found myself gazing into the sleek mahogany coffin lined with generous folds of ivory silk, silently critiquing Mrs. Or simply grieving the fact that my best friend was now motherless and my own mother without her best friend. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.īALLANTINE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. |