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.
ISBN: | 9780099540083 |
Publication date: | 6th August 2009 |
Author: | Julian Barnes |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |