Flaubert's Parrot
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  • Published: 18 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446413555
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrot

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5 Dec 2019
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1 Oct 2009
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1 Jul 2010
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18 Nov 2010
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A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage and Vintage Classics

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great 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 and his own life.
  • Published: 18 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781446413555
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Julian Barnes
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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

Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force

Germaine Greer

A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!

John Irving

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