Amber Heard with a British accent?
Yeah...right. I'm dying to hear how that goes. Sturgess is the only one that might pull that off.
shareI don't think Nicola Six is British, I listened to the audio book and her voice was spoken with an almost Eastern European accent. Does anyone have the book to hand to clarify?
I started reading the book a few months ago, and I don't remember exactly where she was from but I do remember you being on the right track. Definitely not British though.
Do you happen to have the audiobook file handy that you could send me?
Chapter 4, From Keith's perspective:
"That left her accent, which was definitely foreign (Europe, thought Keith: somewhere in the middle), and they might do things funny where she came from."
Chapter 6, Guy Clinch's perspective:
"...which reassured Guy, as did her accent, whose faint foreignness now seemed not french so much as something more Eastern European and intellectual"
Shes described as "foreign" or "exotic" multiple times, the white bikini against her "persian flesh", dark skin is repeatedly mentioned (but she tan's), she tells guy she has jewish blood...
It's kept vague yet descriptive in Amis's style, but certainly not a blond like Amber... and certainly not a british accent (although I don't want to see Amber do a purposefully hard to place accent either, that can't end well).
It's not vague. Nicola Six is deliberately written as an avatar: she represents nuclear war and nuclear weapons.
She has an imaginary friend named Enola Gay, with a child named Fat Boy, in case it had not already become obvious to the reader what Amis was trying to say. She preferred a white one-pice swimsuit and hated a bikini (the atoll, ahem).
The white against the dark flesh.
Nicola's foreignness--indeed, her variegated DNA and undefined ethnicity--represent that of the genealogy of bomb itself: Edward Teller, the so-called "father of the hydrogen bomb", was Hungarian. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist and UC Berkeley professor--also among those who are often called the "father of the atomic bomb"--was part of theManhattan Project, and was Jewish, the American-born son of German a immigrant.
She's not British, in other words, but she lives and operates among Brits and Americans. I'll leave it to everyone to draw the line between Nicola's obsession with, and connection to, death and everything else in this comment. :-)
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