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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 friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the changing attitudes and styles of a generaton that went to Cambridge in the fifties.The subject of a highly acclaimed television series starring Tom Conti, "The Glitter Prizes" is a witty, incisive, beautifully written evocation of an era and its children.
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Frederic Raphael has written more than 20 novels, five volumes of short stories, and biographies of Byron and of W. Somerset Maughan, amongst his prolific work as a writer. He also won an Academy award for screenwriting and wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed film Eyes Wide Shut. Also published by JR Books: Glittering Prizes and Fame and Fortune
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"'Raphael's achievement is rare indeed.' Sunday Times"
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The Glittering Prizes
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Allen Lane / Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0713910283
ISBN 13: 9780713910285
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket photo of Tom Conti by John Timbers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, a couple of short closed tears to bottom of back jacket, some slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, corners slightly bruised, price clipped, gift inscription to half title page, internally clean, tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 297pp. Frederic Raphael's witty, brilliant novel, written alongside the hit TV series first broadcast in 1976, starring Tom Conti, Barbara Kellermann, Leonard Sachs et al, to huge acclaim. It is a classic of post war British fiction. Following the fortunes of an elite group of students at Cambridge University in the 1950s, and then out into the world, the story perfectly captures the zeitgeist of an era. A gifted, grammar school/scholarship generation sweeps away the old rules of class and empire and make their careers in the media, law, politics and academe, forming the meritocracy that would come to govern the British establishment. Adam Morris is the scholarship boy who finds friends and lovers in a tight knit circle that includes Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunningham, Barbara Ransome, and Bill Bourne. They are all brilliant, but on leaving the gilded world of Cambridge only some win the glittering prizes of real life. To Raphael, however, worldly success is not the only measure of happiness. A vein of disillusion and sadness runs through the narrative, beneath all the sparkling badinage. And through Adam, Raphael explores unresolved issues of anti Semitism buried deep in British society, while the sad fate of his roommate and friend Donald hints at the unravelling grip of the old aristocracy. Frederic Raphael was already a successful screenwriter when the TV series was commissioned, having won an Oscar for the movie 'Darling', starring Julie Christie. 'The Glittering Prizes' stands on its own as a nuanced and beautifully written novel, gripping today for its portrayal of a generation, and of a fascinating era of change in British culture. Raphael followed the fortunes of the group with two sequels 'Fame and Fortune' in 2007 and 'Final Demands' in 2010, both of which created much speculation in the media world over the real identity of some of his characters. Very scarce in this first impression. Seller Inventory # 012092
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 297pp. Contents clean, fresh, and unmarked. Closed text-block edges of have a little faint foxing, top edge slightly more. In the original brown cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, head of spine faintly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: bright and clean, the head of the spine being slightly knocked and scuffed with a couple of nicks and a short closed tear to either side. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 19765050
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