Flaubert's Parrot: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Everyman's Library, 348) - Hardcover

Barnes, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307961435 ISBN 13: 9780307961433

Publisher: Everymans Library, 2012

Synopsis

An Everyman's Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the Booker Prize-winning author's earliest and most admired novels, neither of which has been available in hardcover for more than two decades. With full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction.

Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book--shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984--is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obsessed with the French author and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes playfully combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is a mix of fictional and historical narratives of voyage and discovery--ranging from a woodworm's perspective on Noah's ark to a survivor from the sinking of the Titanic--that question our ideas of history. One of his most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as "frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read."

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Review:

'Julian Barnes's wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years' SUNDAY TIMES

Book Description:

An intricate and delightful novel from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everymans Library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307961435
• ISBN 13: 9780307961433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 449