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An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert'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…
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Prestige, contemplative, nostalgic and meticulous.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Julian Barnes
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 228
- Publisher
- Anagrama, RBA, McGraw-Hill
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- cat, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9783251010264
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book *The Sense of an Ending* (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia
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