Flaubert's Parrot
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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that’ -- Caroline Rees * Daily Express *
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in -- Joseph Heller
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo! -- John Irving
Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force -- Germaine Greer
Unputdownable... A mesmeric original -- Philip Larkin
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in -- Joseph Heller
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo! -- John Irving
Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force -- Germaine Greer
Unputdownable... A mesmeric original -- Philip Larkin
Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
SKU | GOR002117201 |
ISBN 13 | 9780099540083 |
ISBN 10 | 0099540088 |
Title | Flaubert's Parrot |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Condition | very good |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
Year published | 2009-08-06 |
Number of pages | 192 |
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