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by Raphael, Frederic

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  • Title Last Post
  • Author Raphael, Frederic
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 522
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lives and Letters
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013223738
  • ISBN 9781800173033 / 1800173032
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.25 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.34 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Quantity available 2

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Reader reviews for Last Post

From the publisher

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.
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