| Ticks and Crosses: Personal Terms IV Contributor(s): Raphael, Frederic (Author) |
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ISBN: 1857549309 ISBN-13: 9781857549300 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: A writer's wry observations about the glamorous worlds of Hollywood and literary London during the second half of the 1970s are offered in this autobiography. Though Frederic Raphael is only incidentally concerned with the rich and famous and has little interest in names and gossip, he notices and comments on the discrepancies between public and private faces to convey the texture of life around him. His notebooks, never originally intended for publication but contained in this compilation, are exercises in candor, precise observation, and wit, creating an engrossingly stylish and enduring chronicle of his times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009396575 |
| Series: Personal Terms |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A writer s wry observations about the glamorous worlds of Hollywood and literary London during the second half of the 1970s are offered in this autobiography. Though Frederic Raphael is only incidentally concerned with the rich and famous and has little interest in names and gossip, he notices and comments on the discrepancies between public and private faces to convey the texture of life around him. His notebooks, never originally intended for publication but contained in this compilation, are exercises in candor, precise observation, and wit, creating an engrossingly stylish and enduring chronicle of his times." |