Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

Paperback(1st Vintage international ed)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679731368
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/27/1990
Series: Vintage International
Edition description: 1st Vintage international ed
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 372,075
Product dimensions: 5.17(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Born in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

January 19, 1946

Place of Birth:

Leicester, England

Education:

Degree in modern languages from Magdalen College, Oxford, 1968

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