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.
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/27/1990
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.22w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780679731368
ISBN10: 0679731369
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
- Fiction | Satire
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.
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/27/1990
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.22w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780679731368
ISBN10: 0679731369
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
- Fiction | Satire
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 M?dicis and the Prix F?mina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.