9781800173033

Last Post

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ISBN13: 9781800173033

Paperback|9781800173033


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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.

ISBN-13

9781800173033

ISBN-10

1800173032

Weight

1.41 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 1.30 x 8.50 In

List Price

$40.00

Format

Paperback

Pages

384 pages

Publisher

Lives and Letters

Published On

2023-09-28



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