William Golding THE PAPER MEN First Edition
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William Golding THE PAPER MEN First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE PAPER MEN, by William Golding and published by Faber and Faber Ltd., London in 1984. Illustration by Paul Hogarth.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine which has only minor bumping to the bottom spine edge), with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (slight creasing to the edges mainly around the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Sir William Gerald Golding (1911 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage , the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
"Fame, success, fortune: a drink problem slipping over the border-line into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of a middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final, unbearable irritation is Professor Rick L. Tucker, implacable in his determination to become The Barclay Man. Locked in a lethal relationship, they stumble half-blindly across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect, and illusions. They confront terrifying abysses - physical, emotional, spiritual - change roles, change themselves, change the worlds about them. The climax, when it comes, is as inevitable as it is unexpected.
Ferociously powerful, unpredictable, unclassifiable, The Paper Men is as idiosyncratic and original as anything William Golding has yet written.
The 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature was the final recognition of Golding's genius, confirmation of what had already become generally accepted - that of all British novelists now writing, his work is the most likely to survive."
191 pages.
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