On the Contrary

Raphael Frederic

Candid and sometimes scathing memoirs from the Oscar-award-winning screenwriter of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. On the Contrary is a Proustian parade of people and events (including Thatcher and the Falklands war), written with the vividness and candor of a highly articulate and unblinking eye-witness.

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); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. 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, with subsequent volumes in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2013.

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