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No stock at Dublin - Hodges Figgis
No stock at Dublin - Hodges Figgis

Synopsis

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...

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571371716
  • Number of pages: 272
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
  • Weight: 228g
  • Languages: English