{"product_id":"william-golding-s-the-paper-men-first-american-edition","title":"William Golding’s The Paper Men — First American Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWILLIAM GOLDING’S FIRST NOVEL AFTER THE NOBEL PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Golding published \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Men\u003c\/em\u003e in 1984, the year after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. The timing gives the original jacket an unusually direct piece of literary history: above Golding’s name, in large capitals, it announces \u003cstrong\u003e“WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy then Golding had spent thirty years living with the consequences of literary fame. \u003cem\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/em\u003e had made his reputation in 1954, and the Nobel had just placed the ultimate institutional seal upon it. In \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Men\u003c\/em\u003e, he turned his attention to what happens when a writer’s life itself becomes something other people want to possess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilfred Barclay is a successful English novelist whose marriage and drinking are both deteriorating. Into his life comes Rick L. Tucker, an American professor determined to become Barclay’s authorized biographer, editor of his papers and definitive scholarly authority. Barclay wants to escape him. Tucker refuses to disappear. Their pursuit moves across Europe and becomes increasingly obsessive, comic and destructive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something wonderfully vicious in Golding writing this immediately after receiving the Nobel Prize: a newly canonized author producing a novel about the machinery of literary canonization and the people who descend upon a writer’s papers, biography and reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe copy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst American edition, first printing. New York: Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, 1984. Octavo, 191 pages. Publisher’s quarter burgundy cloth over paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine. Original pictorial dust jacket designed by Honi Werner, retaining the publisher’s $13.95 price on the front flap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good in the original unclipped dust jacket, with toning and light wear visible in the photographs. The jacket is protected in a removable archival cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 0-374-22980-5. The copyright page states “First printing, 1984.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47250271043772,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/1300524.jpg?v=1786136389","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/william-golding-s-the-paper-men-first-american-edition","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}