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Author | Julian Barnes |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1984 |
Publication place | England |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 190 pp |
ISBN | 0-7475-1347-3 |
OCLC | 27415629 |
Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984,[1] and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Prix Médicis Essai in 1985 and 1986 respectively.[2][3] The novel recites amateur Gustave Flaubert expert Geoffrey Braithwaite's musings on his subject's life, and his own, as he looks for a stuffed parrot that inspired the great author.