The Paper Men
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374229805 / Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1984
Successful middle-aged English novelist Wilfred Barclay becomes locked in a mutually lethal relationship with an American professor of English literature who aims to become the authorized biographer and posthumous editor--the Barclay authority
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English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.
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