Going Up: To Cambridge and Beyond - A Writer's Memoir

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Going Up is a journey from Chicago to Putney, to Charterhouse, on up to Cambridge, and beyond to Hollywood and France, recording experiences that were absorbed in his opulent novels and screenplays. Raphael is the author of over twenty novels, the most celebrated being The Glittering Prizes and its sequels, following the aspirations and changing lives of a group of Cambridge students through to middle age.

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'There are things to delight and savour on almost every page of this rich memoir... For anyone of a certain age, this book offers the deep purring pleasure of nostalgia; for younger readers a picture of a lost world, distant from today's corporate publishing. I loved it, and look forward to a sequel, and Raphael's sweet-and-sour memories of the Sixties and his Oscar-winning days.' - The Telegraph; '[Raphael's] firework eloquence is dazzling... All [his] writings show a quick sensitivity to dialogue and hidden meanings. The people in his memoirs, like the characters in his novels, bound off the page into life - boisterous, punchy and gloriously funny.' - The Mail on Sunday; 'No thresher has been more enthusiastic in reducing the cornfield of others' reputations to size ... A hugely entertaining book'. - The Guardian; 'A hugely intelligent memoir ... Tremendously good'. - The Times

Author Bio

Frederic Raphael is a screenwriter, biographer, non-fiction writer, novelist and journalist. He lives in France.