Flaubert's Parrot
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 6, 2009
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-954008-3
- GTIN
- 9780099540083
- Weight, g
- 172
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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.