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Flaubert's Parrot

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Author Julian Barnes
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$17.00 US
Knopf | Vintage
5.2"W x 8"H x 0.6"D  
On sale Nov 27, 1990 | 208 Pages | 9780679731368
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of style and imagination? Julian Barnes spins a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both scholarly and romantic.
© Marzena Pogorzaly
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes
  • FINALIST | 1984
    Booker Prize
“A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.... rich in parody and parrotry, full of insight and wit ... a great success.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize 

Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of style and imagination? Julian Barnes spins a multiple mystery, an exuberant metafictional inquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it; a piercing glimpse at the nature of obsession and betrayal, both scholarly and romantic.

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© Marzena Pogorzaly
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. View titles by Julian Barnes

Awards

  • FINALIST | 1984
    Booker Prize

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“A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.... rich in parody and parrotry, full of insight and wit ... a great success.” —The New York Times Book Review

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