Last Post

Frederic Raphael

ISBN 9781800173033

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £19.99

PUBLICATION DATE 23rd February 2023

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th April 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 384pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE BM Memoirs

‘A hilarious and disillusioned page-turner’ THE TLS ON AGAINST THE STREAM

• A book of celebrity letters from the award-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael

• Unusual for its forthrightness, humour and timeless wisdom - the fact that none of the recipients ever received, or responded to, the letters is part of their charm and challenge

• The letters in Last Post, addressed to celebrated people of Raphael’s close and more distant acquaintance, drawn in part from his memoirs, display his ‘iridescent intelligence, seductive charm, urbane temper and unflagging delight’ (TLS)

• Recipients of these two dozen ‘summative letters’ include Stanley Kubrick, John Schlesinger, George Steiner, Dorothy Nimmo, Jonathan Miller, Michael Ayrton and Jesus

• Previous memoir Against the Stream was a TLS Book of the Year 2018

About The Author

Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John’s College, Cambridge. His novels include The Glittering Prizes (1976), A Double Life (1993), Coast to Coast (1998) and Fame and Fortune (2007); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. Frederic Raphael is a leading screenwriter, whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965), Two for the Road (1967), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The first volume of Personal Terms was published by Carcanet in 2001, with subsequent volumes in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2018.

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9781784104368

Against the Stream

Frederic Raphael

August 2018

£19.99