Flaubert’s Parrot
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Description
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer’s work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey himself.
Additional information
Weight | 0.142 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.2 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 192 |
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Year Published | 2009-7-2 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0099540584 |
About The Author | 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. |
Delightful and enriching… A book to revel in |
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Other text | A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo! |
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