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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (1990, Trade Paperback)

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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. Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679731369

ISBN-139780679731368

eBay Product ID (ePID)917007

Product Key Features

Book TitleFlaubert's Parrot

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicVisionary & Metaphysical, Satire, General, Literary

Publication Year1990

GenreFiction

AuthorJulian Barnes

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-050162

Reviews"A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.... rich in parody and parrotry, full of insight and wit ... a great success." -- The New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisBOOKER 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., A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters., 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.

LC Classification NumberPR6052.A6657F56 1990