In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and narrative poetry to astonishing effect in this, her fifth book. Feasting on the tropes, traps, and types of the James Bond mythos and doubling back on the incendiary narrative of Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ, Beach and her cast of loved-and-left Bond Girls dismantle the man and his mysteries. Fans of Beach’s tenacious poetry and readers seeking redemption in explosive narrative and fearless wit will love The Last Temptation of Bond.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780888646439 9780888648082
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.B43
- LCCN Item number
- L37 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (114 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233070 (OCoLC)823506360 (CaOOCEL)446382
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- I. Real Men Are No Competition 8
- A Night in the Life 10
- Bond Dreams a Marquis 13
- The Girls 17
- The Last Temptation of Miss Moneypenny 18
- Sparkling Repartee at the Weekly Casino Royale-athon 22
- Black Brioni Dinner Jacket 32
- Making a Vesper Martini for You 34
- II. His Moment of Doubt and Pain 36
- From Russia with Love 38
- "Your Heart Is as Black as Night" 41
- Suck the Love From You 43
- The Last Temptation of Christ 46
- The Real Thing! 50
- The World Is not Enough 52
- His Moment of Doubt and Pain 54
- Agony in the Hotel 59
- Stop and Pick Up a Bottle of Wine 65
- I Feel Like a Rusty Nail 67
- Especially You 73
- III. The Last Temptation of Bond 76
- Decide, My Darling 78
- The Last Temptation of Bond 83
- Before it Reached his Heart 109
- How to Prepare a Body for an Open Casket Funeral 113
- The Unknown Family 117
- Acknowledgements 120
- About the Author 122
