With a rich cast, a fast-moving story line, and dialogue that
displays all the wit and panache for which Frederic Raphael is
famous, Fame and Fortune - recently dramatised on BBC Radio 4 - is a
powerful sequel to his bestselling classic, The Glittering
Prizes.Success as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter has brought
fame and its pleasures to Adam Morris, whose public cynicism
continues to mask his private anguish.He still moves warily amongst
his ambitious Cambridge contemporaries, but for them, as for him,
success has proved a double-edged sword.For Adam, a startling sexual
encounter, as well as the defection of his son, Tom, and his
brilliant daughter, Rachel, threaten to capsize his complacency and
his marriage. In Mrs Thatcher's golden years, money and power can do
little to ensure the glittering prizewinners from the trip-wires that
lace their upward path - or from the violence and death that stalks
and strikes
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