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      The Paper Men

      by William Golding
      Published
      Dec 1999
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      192
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      Join an eccentric novelist on the run from his obsessive would-be biographer in this comic farce by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.

      Why should I conceal the fact that I had found a full professor of Eng. Lit. rifling my dustbin?


      Fame, fortune, alcoholism, a failing marriage: for novelist Wilfred Barclay, his final unbearable irritation is his would-be-biographer, the young academic Professor Rick L. Tucker, who is determined to become The Barclay Man.


      Locked in a lethal relationship, the two men stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and identities in a game of literary cat and mouse - and the climax of their odyssey, when it comes, is as inevitable as it is unexpected . . .


      'A complex literary comedy from an extraordinarily powerful writer, which holds us right through to the end.'       Malcolm Bradbury


      'Rich as a compost heap . . . It moves you and at times it can shake you.      ' Melvyn Bragg


      '[Golding's] splendid comic gift is used to often hilarious effect, running the whole gamut of comedy, from irony to farce . . . Hugely enjoyable.'       Daily Telegraph

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      First Edition Dec 1999 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374526399 ISBN10 0374526397
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      Nov 1985 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780156708005 ISBN10 0156708000
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      Apr 1984 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374229801 ISBN10 0374229805
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      Nov 2012 Faber & Faber Fiction ISBN10 B00A9MOB3G
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      Nov 2013 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571312252 ISBN10 057131225X
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      Nov 2013 Faber & Faber ISBN10 B00F21V7F4
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      Jun 1993 ISIS Audio Books ISBN13 9781856955102 ISBN10 1856955109
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