3 Novels by Frederic Raphael
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Overview: Frederic Michael Raphael is an American British BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, biographer, non-fiction writer, novelist and journalist.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
California Time:
Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalize arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious, since he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives are top friends of his. Why, then, is he left to languish in the grand hotel owned by Verdugo, which in Spanish means executioner? What is the relationship between Victor, who can write equally well with left hand or right, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, about whom he once made a film, a film which is showing on TV as he enters his suite? Who is the beautiful girl whom he sees in the lobby, and is she the same girl who is later found dead under sinister circumstances? Is Victor England a victim or a killer?
There have been many novels about Hollywood. There has never been one like this. Frederic Raphael’s vision of California Time is of a sequence of presents and his innovations in the form of the novel serve only to add to the multi-faceted strangeness of the celluloid capital. Victor England, young and old at the same time, is a man of many wives and many films, rich and yet dependent on the bounty of a failing industry, whose golden slave he is.
Coast to Coast:
Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their long drive from coast to coast is planned to include a number of stops: the first to deposit their dog with Marion’s pious, bitter sister in upstate New York.
Darling:
First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is the Happiness Girl in ads plastered all over the country and she’s hunting happiness in more ways than she’s care to confess.
She’s the darling of the rich and powerful, of Prince Cesare della Romita, of TV writer and interviewer Robert Gold, of suave business success Miles Brand.
She’s the life of the Dolce Vita, Paris version, a reckless seeker of self, caught up in a frenzied sex excursion of jet-set Europe. This is her story, a novel based on the bold and powerful Joseph E. Levine motion picture.
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