JOIN AN ECCENTRIC NOVELIST ON THE RUN FROM HIS OBSESSIVE WOULD-BE BIOGRAPHER IN THIS COMIC FARCE BY THE RADICAL NOBEL LAUREATE AND AUTHOR OF _LORD OF THE FLIES_. _WHY SHOULD I CONCEAL THE FACT THAT I HAD FOUND A FULL PROFESSOR OF ENG. LIT. RIFLING MY DUSTBIN?_ Fame, fortune, alcoholism, a failing marriage: for novelist Wilfred Barclay, his final unbearable irritation is his would-be-biographer, the young academic Professor Rick L. Tucker, who is determined to become The Barclay Man. Locked in a lethal relationship, the two men stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and identities in a game of literary cat and mouse - and the climax of their odyssey, when it comes, is as inevitable as it is unexpected . . . 'A complex literary comedy from an extraordinarily powerful writer, which holds us right through to the end.' Malcolm Bradbury 'Rich as a compost heap . . . It moves you and at times it can shake you.' Melvyn Bragg '[Golding's] splendid comic gift is used to often hilarious effect, running the whole gamut of comedy, from irony to farce . . . Hugely enjoyable.'_ Daily Telegraph_