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The Paper Men

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Language
  
English language

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
0-571-13206-5

Author
  
Publisher
  
Faber and Faber

Country
  
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Publication date
  
Feb 1984

Pages
  
191

Originally published
  
February 1984

Page count
  
191

Cover artist
  
Paul Hogarth

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Works by William Golding, Other books

The Paper Men is a 1984 novel by British writer William Golding.

The protagonist in the novel is Wilfred Barclay, a curmudgeonly writer who has a drinking problem, a dead marriage, and the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. Barclay is irritated by a young professor, Rick Tucker, who is determined to write Barclay's biography and is desperate to gain control of the writer's personal papers. Tucker pursues Barclay across Europe and both men sacrifice relationships, self-respect, and ultimately themselves in this lethal pursuit.

The ending is both inevitable and shocking and exposes the desperation of the literary biographer and the determination of the subject to maintain control over the story of his own life.

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