Flaubert's Parrot |
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Author:
| Barnes, Julian |
Series title: | Vintage International Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-679-73136-8 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1990 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE * From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert--and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. * "A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio." --The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective,...
More Description BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE * From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert--and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. * "A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio." --The New York Times Book Review
Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius.
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.