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Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

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Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey himself. 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.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9781409088523
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Obsession and literary biographyGrief and personal lossNature of truth and storytelling

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