Flaubert's Parrot - Softcover

Barnes, Julian

3.65

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330289764 ISBN 13: 9780330289764

Publisher: Picador, 2005

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Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the colour of Emma Bovary's eyes? And why should it matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor haunted by a private secret? In Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic) and creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.

'A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!' John Irving

'Endless food for thought, beautifully written . . . A tour de force' Germaine Greer

'Delightful and enriching . . . A book to read' Joseph Heller

'A dazzling achievement . . . remarkably inventive as well as audacious' Walter Abish

'A delight . . . Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984' John Fowles

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'A wry and graceful book ... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny.' (The Sunday Times)

'Endless food for thought, beautifully written ... A tour de force.' (Germaine Greer)

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'Julian Barnes' 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

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