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A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
Julian Barnes

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Julian Barnes is the author of ten previous novels, three books of short stories, and three collections of journalism. In addition to the Booker Prize, his other honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.

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FINALIST 1984 Man Booker Prize

  • Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
  • November 27, 1990
  • Fiction - Literary; Fiction
  • Vintage
  • $15.00
  • 9780679731368

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