Author | : Julian Barnes |
Publisher | : Random House |
Release Date | : 2010-02-23 |
ISBN | : 1409088529 |
Pages | : 192 pages |
Rating | : 4.4/5 (9 download) |
Download or read book Flaubert's Parrot written by Julian Barnes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 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.