Flaubert’s Parrot
- Author Julian Barnes
- Narrator Julian Barnes
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 3 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
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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
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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!
Joseph Heller -
Endless food for thought, beautifully written… A tour de force
Germaine Greer -
A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!
John Irving -
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
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