Flaubert's Parrot

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Author/Contributor(s): Barnes, Julian Publisher: Vintage Date: 11/27/1990 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of Th e 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. Show more