The Paper Men

''A complex literary comedy from an extraordinarily powerful writer.'' Malcolm Bradbury''The great unbreakable wild horse of the 1960s British literary stable.'' Rose Tremain''Rich as a compost heap.'' Melvyn BraggJoin 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 . . .