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  Flaubert's Parrot (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Julian Barnes

  

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  Short Description for Flaubert's ParrotGeoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of a stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Classics
  • Published: 02 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780099540588 ISBN 10: 0099540584
  • Sales rank: 15,364

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• Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.