Flaubert's Parrot (Paperback)
Julian Barnes (author)Published: 06/08/2009
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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099540083
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 159 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in -- Joseph Heller
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo! -- John Irving
Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force -- Germaine Greer
Unputdownable... A mesmeric original -- Philip Larkin
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