Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
Taste attributes: dramacomedybiographyslowfresh & originalenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemsself destruction/implosiontroubled leads
Boxlist takeAn original, intimate novel, otherwise balanced. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.5 / 5
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About This Book
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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- Julian Barnes
- Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 228
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