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Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099540588
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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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 a stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels.
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.
| ISBN | 0099540584 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9780099540588
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 138 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage Classics | | Height (mm) | 195 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Publication date | 02 Jul 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781850897262 |
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