Last Post

Frederic Raphael

ISBN 10: 1800173032 / ISBN 13: 9781800173033

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, 2023

About this Item

Last Post | Frederic Raphael | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2023 | Carcanet Press Ltd | EAN 9781800173033 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Post
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800173032
• ISBN 13: 9781800173033
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 134W x 217H x 42D millimeters 134 millimeters width by 217 millimeters height by 42 millimeters depth
• Weight: 636 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Last Post has a double life; it both sounds for the gallant fallen and recalls what spurred freelance journalists, in all those yesterdays before e-mail, to get their copy in the pillar-box by deadline time. Frederic Raphael's compendium, written in the lively equivalent of the French epistolary second person singular, is a rare mixture of loud salutes, occasional raspberries and affectionate farewells. Its intimacy delivers frankness that formal biography, however plumped with proper sources, seldom achieves. As the parade goes by, Last Post becomes what classicists call a 'prosopography'. Raphael's own versatility shows up in the varieties of tone and vocabulary in long letters of tribute to the two Stanleys Kubrick and Donen, Ken Tynan, Leslie Bricusse, Tom Maschler, Dorothy Nimmo the known and the less known but no less valued; finally, above all, in farewell to his beloved daughter Sarah.

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). 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.