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Published: 1 July 2010
ISBN: 9781409088523
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 208

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Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

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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 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

Published: 1 July 2010
ISBN: 9781409088523
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 208

Categories:

About the author

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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Praise for Flaubert's Parrot

Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’
Caroline Rees, Daily Express

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

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!
Joseph Heller

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