Like Men Betrayed
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set against the backdrop of post-war British society, where one man's desperate choices unravel the lives of everyone around him. Frederic Raphael chronicles the story of a father whose financial and ethical compromises drag his son into a world of corruption, forcing a brutal reckoning between generations that exposes the hollow promises at the heart of respectability and success. Raphael, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Darling and his incisive Cambridge novels, writes with a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy, crafting characters whose veneer of civility barely conceals their capacity for betrayal. The novel stands as a sharp indictment of a class system that rewards complicity and punishes integrity, leaving the reader to question just how much any man truly owes to those who shaped him — and at what cost loyalty is finally abandoned.
Author: Frederic Raphael
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Jonathan Cape, London
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set against the backdrop of post-war British society, where one man's desperate choices unravel the lives of everyone around him. Frederic Raphael chronicles the story of a father whose financial and ethical compromises drag his son into a world of corruption, forcing a brutal reckoning between generations that exposes the hollow promises at the heart of respectability and success. Raphael, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Darling and his incisive Cambridge novels, writes with a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy, crafting characters whose veneer of civility barely conceals their capacity for betrayal. The novel stands as a sharp indictment of a class system that rewards complicity and punishes integrity, leaving the reader to question just how much any man truly owes to those who shaped him — and at what cost loyalty is finally abandoned.