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Fame and Fortune by Raphael, Frederic, 1931- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fame and Fortune about?
Fame and Fortune is the long-awaited continuation of Frederic Raphaels best-selling novel The Glittering Prizes , which followed a generation of Cambridge graduates into the academic and media world of the 1960s. In this new book, Successful novelist and screenwriter Adam Morris, now in his late forties, remains the central character, but many of his contemporaries continue to feature in his life. These include the ambitious and endlessly scheming movie director Mike Clode; the Australian-born TV star Alan Parks, who now seems to front every other serious or semi-serious program on TV; and Joyce Hadleigh, whose career on TV Alan has fosteredjust as years earlier at Cambridge, he fathered her child whom Dan Bradley, now a primary school headmaster in Wandsworth, raised as his own. The vivid complexity of Fame and Fortune reflects not only the nature of London life in the era of Margaret Thatcher but also the changing attitudes and lifestyles of a younger generation. Adam and his wife Barbara find themselves faced with the defection of their son, Tom, to a Christian sect that leads him to drop out of university and desert his family a situation that is compounded, with disconcerting
Who reads Fame and Fortune?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Raphael, Frederic, 1931-
- Publisher
- London: JR Books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781906217341
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.38 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14