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Author:
Julian Barnes
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099540083
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EAN: 9780099540083
Published: 1 Mar 2012
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.
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Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in
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Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force
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A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!
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Unputdownable... A mesmeric original
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A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny
- Sunday Times
Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including Metroland, Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George and most recently The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare and The Pedant in the Kitchen.
His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only British writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert’s Parrot) and the Prix Fémina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and in 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He lives in London.
