Ticks and Crosses Frederic Raphael

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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.

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Ticks and Crosses Frederic Raphael

The fourth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, Ticks and Crosses covers the years 1976 to 1978 with the sharp wit and provocative intelligence that made the earlier books an acclaimed success. Raphael observes the inner workings of film studios with the cool acuity of a classicist; he records his thinking on philosophy, Jewishness, and Greece ancient and modern, with the tough irreverence of a Hollywood operator. Among the pleasures of Ticks and Crosses are 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 PowellA...The eminent are caught off-guard; aphorisms sparkle, and throughout, Raphael's love of French life and culture, his delight in the human comedy of social life, illuminate his unfolding chronicle.

Ticks and Crosses Bewertungen

'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 fiction. Least 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.

Über Frederic Raphael

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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GOR008779467

ISBN 13

9781857549300

ISBN 10

1857549309

Titel

Ticks and Crosses Frederic Raphael

Autor

Frederic Raphael

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Broschiert

Verlag

Carcanet Press Ltd

Datum

20081127

Anzahl der Seiten

221

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