Against the Stream

For over five decades, the screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist Frederic Raphael has had rare access to the glittering world of the elite, both in Hollywood and in the worlds of politics, literature and the press. Against the Stream, the seventh and most explosive volume in the "Personal Terms" series, is a Proustian parade of high-profile figures and key historical events, including Thatcher and the Falklands war, written with the vividness and candor of a highly articulate and unblinking eyewitness who wished to capture in writing the strange and extraordinary world in which he was immersed.