The Paper Men

<b>'A complex literary comedy from an extraordinarily powerful writer,.'</b> Malcolm Bradbury<br><b>'The great unbreakable wild horse of the 1960s British literary stable.' </b>Rose Tremain<br><b>'Rich as a compost heap.</b>' Melvyn Bragg<br><br><b></b><br><b>Join an eccentric novelist on the run from his obsessive would-be biographer in this comic farce </b><b>by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of <i>Lord of the Flies</i>. </b><br><br><b><i>Why should I conceal the fact that I had found a full professor of Eng. Lit. rifling my dustbin?</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>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 . . .