Flaubert’s Parrot

Description

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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Julian Barnes
Published: 11/27/1990
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679731368
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 0.59″ H x 8.03″ L x 5.22″ W

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.