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Flaubert’s Parrot

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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.


© Julian Barnes 1984 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

Critics Review

Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’
Daily Express
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!
Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force
Unputdownable... A mesmeric original
A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny
Sunday Times
A dazzling entertainer
New Yorker
Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in!
Julian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years
Sunday Times
A delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984
John Fowles
Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Julian Barnes
Duration 3 hours
Release Date
ISBN 9781446413555
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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