Flaubert's Parrot
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
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Flaubert's Parrot
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
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Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

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Overview

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307797858
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/15/2011
Series: Vintage International
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of more than 20 books, including Keeping an The Sense of an Ending, The Noise of Time, and Eye Open: Essays on Art. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004, he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

January 19, 1946

Place of Birth:

Leicester, England

Education:

Degree in modern languages from Magdalen College, Oxford, 1968

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