All His Sons: A Novella and Nine Stories

by Frederic Raphael

Casting a satirical eye on the business of movie-making, this collection's title novella follows two very different brothers, each working in opposite ends of the film industry, who uncover shocking family secrets after their father mysteriously dies. A French film producer attempts to humiliate an American director in “Who Whom?” while “The Siren’s Song” tells the tale of a Greek sailor’s rise and fall—which turn out to be one and the same. In “God and Mammon,” a hot young novelist whose work is revered for its honesty and vulgarity writes a dishonest screenplay of his novel.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published June 24, 1999

About the author

Writer, critic and broadcaster, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse School and at St John's College, Cambridge. He has written several screenplays and fifteen novels. His The Glittering Prizes was one of the major British and American television successes of the 1970s.