Flaubert's parrot (Book, 1985) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Flaubert's parrot

Flaubert's parrot

Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : English : First American editionView all editions and formats
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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." -- publisher's description.
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Genre/Form: novels
Novels
Fiction
Biographical fiction
Romans
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Barnes, Julian.
Flaubert's parrot.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985
(OCoLC)679457173
Named Person: Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert; Gustave Flaubert
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 039454272X 9780394542720 0679731369 9780679731368
OCLC Number: 11291489
Awards: Short-listed for Booker Prize 1984
Description: 190 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Flaubert's parrot --
Chronology --
Finders keepers --
The Flaubert bestiary --
Snap! --
Emma Bovary's eyes --
Cross channel --
The train-spotter's guide to Flaubert --
The Flaubert apocrypha --
The case against --
Louise Colet's version --
Braithwaite's dictionary of accepted ideas --
Pure story --
Examination paper --
And the parrot.
Responsibility: Julian Barnes.

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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." -- publisher's description.
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