Ticks and Crosses by Frederic Raphael
Covering the years 1976 to 1978, this title offers an account of a farcical summer afternoon spent floating down a French river on a lilo in the company of Shirley Williams; an alarming trip up the wrong (and by no means dormant) volcano in Guatemala; meeting Nabokov; taking part in Any Questions with Enoch Powell.
'Raphael's sharp wit spares no one, not the sacred monsters of the movie business and the literary world, nor the incidental characters whose unguarded stories and personalities become the material for fictionLeast of all does he spare himself. Rough Copy is a self-portrait of a writer whose precision and honesty are both entertaining and searching.' - The Sunday Telegraph.'a wonderfully bracing read...the richness and energy of the writing will carry you through...Go on, tell me you don't want to read this book, and I won't believe you.' - Marcus Berkmann, The Spectator.
Born in 1931 in Chicago, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. The first of his numerous novels was published in 1956; Coast to Coast was published by Orion in 1998. He has adapted his novels The Glittering Prizes (1976) and After the War (1988) for television. He has also written stories, biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. He is a leading screenwriter, whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857549300 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857549309 |
| Title | Ticks and Crosses |
| Author | Frederic Raphael |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 221 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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