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J. Robert Oppenheimer, For Example

J.ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, FOR EXAMPLE is a polite, ironic polemic inspired by the life of “the Father of the Atom Bomb” and by the recent biography of him by Ray Monk. Frederic Raphael's (Eyes Wide Shut, Glittering Prizes) theme is the ambivalent role of the Jewish intellectual and the use which Christe...

The Glittering Prizes

Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friends...

Fame and Fortune

With a rich cast, a fast-moving story line, and dialogue that displays all the wit and panache for which Frederic Raphael is famous, Fame and Fortune - recently dramatised on BBC Radio 4 - is a powerful sequel to his bestselling classic, The Glittering Prizes. Success as a novelist and Hollywood scr...

Coast to Coast

Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their lon...

Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least for correspondents in the twenty-first century, is that Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epste...

Ifs and Buts (Personal Terms)

Witty and stylish, these extracts from Frederic Raphael’s journal chronicle the life and reflections of the screenwriter. Of special interest to film enthusiasts, this candid memoir includes encounters with David Garnett and Rebecca West—and their vivid recollections of H. G. Wells, Lytton Strachey,...

List of Books

Edited and compiled by a writer and a scholar, this book recommends an "imaginary library" of over three thousand works, which if assembled would provide balanced, varied, enjoyable and instructive reading on the whole spectrum of subjects - from Anthropology, through Fiction, Medicine and Poetry to...

Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick

We've all heard the rumors.He was a hermit. He refused to fly and wouldn't be driven at more than thirty miles an hour. He avoided having his picture taken and was terrified of being assassinated. As a filmmaker, he was obsessed with perfection. He insisted on total control of every facet of the pro...

Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born, British- educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.

Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael (born August 14, 1931) is an American-born, British-educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.