Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book-shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984-is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obsessed with the French author and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes playfully combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is a mix of fictional and historical narratives of voyage and discovery-ranging from a woodworm's perspective on Noah's ark to a survivor from the sinking of the Titanic-that question our ideas of history. One of his most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as "frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read."
Introduction by Sarah Churchwell
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/10/2012
An Everyman's Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the Booker Prize-winning author's earliest and most admired novels, neither of which has been available in hardcover for more than two decades. With full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction.
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book-shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984-is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obsessed with the French author and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes playfully combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is a mix of fictional and historical narratives of voyage and discovery-ranging from a woodworm's perspective on Noah's ark to a survivor from the sinking of the Titanic-that question our ideas of history. One of his most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as "frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read."
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book-shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984-is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obsessed with the French author and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes playfully combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is a mix of fictional and historical narratives of voyage and discovery-ranging from a woodworm's perspective on Noah's ark to a survivor from the sinking of the Titanic-that question our ideas of history. One of his most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as "frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read."
- ISBN:
- 9780307961433
- 9780307961433
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 02-10-2012
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Random House USA Inc
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions (mm):
- 211x134x31mm
- Weight:
- 0.6kg
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