Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
CATCHING BULLETS –
MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
by MARK O’CONNELL
Published by SPLENDID BOOKS on 3rd
September 2012 (UK / US)
From the offbeat
vantage point of a movie-obsessed teenager whose grandfather was chauffeur to
legendary 007 producer Albert R. Broccoli, CATCHING BULLETS – MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
is a love-letter to James Bond, Duran Duran title songs and bolting down your
tea quick enough to watch Roger Moore falling out of a plane without a
parachute.
When Jimmy O'Connell took a job as chauffeur for 007
producers Eon Productions, it would not just be Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and
Sean Connery he would drive to James Bond. His grandson Mark swiftly hitches a
ride on a humorous journey of filmic discovery where Bond movies fire like
bespoke bullets at a Reagan-era Catholic childhood marked with divorce, a
closet-gay adolescence sound-tracked by John Barry and an adult life as a
comedy writer still inspired by that Broccoli movie magic.
“Mark O’Connell is a great new writing talent and
we are delighted to be publishing his first book,†says Splendid Books’
Editorial Director Shoba Vazirani. “CATCHING BULLETS is very funny and he
brings a genuinely new insight into the Bond film phenomena.
“The book is a fascinating journey, in which Mark
reconsiders all the Bond films as they fire into his and everyone’s
cinema-going memories.â€
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Publisher: Splendid Books
Format: Paperback / e-book
Pages: 300
RRP: £7.99 / $11
ISBN-10: 0956950574
ISBN-13: 978-0956950574
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