- Publisher:
- VINTAGE
- Year of publication:
- 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-954008-3
- Pages:
- 192
FLAUBERT'S PARROT
JULIAN BARNES
'An intricate and delightful novel' Graham Greene Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. 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 'Delightful and enriching...A book to revel in' Joseph Heller 'A wry and graceful book, part novel, part literary criticism...the writing is unfailing sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years' Sunday Times 'Endless food for thought, beautifully written...a tour de force' Germaine Greer 'A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable...Bravo!' John Irving