Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Jul '09

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'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the 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.

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.

‘Unputdownable... A mesmeric original’ Philip Larkin

‘Delightful and enriching...a book to revel in!’ Joseph Heller

‘A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny’ Sunday Times

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR TO MARK THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST PUBLICATION

Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!
Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force
Unputdownable... A mesmeric original
A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny * Sunday Times *
A dazzling entertainer * New Yorker *
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in!
Julian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years * Sunday Times *
A delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984 * John Fowles *
A dazzling achievement...remarkably inventive as well as audacious * Walter Abish *

ISBN: 9780099540588

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 152g

208 pages