num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Paper Men
titlecomplete: The Paper Men
genres: Classics, British Literature, Humor, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Modern
ratings_count: 804
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux