Cuts and Bruises Personal Terms 3

"The first volume of Frederic Raphael's journals, Personal Terms, was greeted in the TLS as 'a minor masterpiece'. With the publication of Cuts and Bruises, the third volume, the sequence unfolds into a major literary achievement. Cuts and Bruises takes us to the 1970s. Raphael is travelling widely (not least to Hollywood, which provokes a mordantly sweet and sour account of figures such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and John Schlesinger), and writing the acclaimed television series The Glittering Prizes." "Raphael's notebooks are exercises in private candour, precise observation and wit. Cuts and Bruises adds to the impression that Raphael is creating an engrossingly readable, stylish and enduring chronicle of our times."--BOOK JACKET.