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Flaubert's parrot / Julian Barnes.

By: Barnes, Julian.
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1985Description: 216 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0070037485 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Appreciation -- Fiction | Literary historians--Fiction | Biographers--Fiction | France--FictionDDC classification: Fic B26f 1985 Summary: Our narrator is Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubert. As he leads us on an investigative trip through France and through the past, we are offered a glimpse of the writer who so fascinates him. At the same time the layers of Braithwaite's own past are peeled away to reveal someone infinitely more troubled than he first seemed.
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Our narrator is Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubert. As he leads us on an investigative trip through France and through the past, we are offered a glimpse of the writer who so fascinates him. At the same time the layers of Braithwaite's own past are peeled away to reveal someone infinitely more troubled than he first seemed.

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