Flaubert's Parrot

Informationen zum Autor Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending , which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story . He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of . He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'Honneur in 2017. Klappentext Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great 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. Zusammenfassung Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Barnes
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780099540588
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954058-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century