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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.… (plus d'informations)
Je compris aussitôt que c'était une nuit comme j'en avais tant connu. [...]
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`The biography will be a duet, Rick. We'll show the world what we are -- paper men, you can call us. ... Think, Rick --- all the people who get lice like you in their hair, all the people spied on, followed, lied about, all the people offered up to the great public -- we'll be revenged, Rick, I'll be revenged on the whole lot of them.'
What would he turn up, dull and indefatigable, treading through my past life with his huge feet, shoving his nose down to that old, cold trail?
"I majored in flower arranging and bibliography."
Neither of us, critic and author, we knew nothing about people or not enough. We knew about paper, that was all. ... Then, paper man that I am, I began to think -- what a story!
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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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