Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0330289764
- ISBN 13
- 9780330289764
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Cape. Good. 197mm / 130mm. Paperback. 1985. 190 pages. Cover worn<br>Which of two stuffed parrots was the ins piration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the mast er keep changing the colour of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should it matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor haun ted by a private secret? In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes spin s ... .
Synopsis
An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert'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
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- Title
- Flaubert's Parrot
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0330289764
- ISBN 13
- 9780330289764
- Publisher
- Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Fiction, in, English, 1945-, Texts,, Dewey:, 823/.914
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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