| Flaubert's Parrot, a History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell Contributor(s): Barnes, Julian (Author), Churchwell, Sarah (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307961435 ISBN-13: 9780307961433 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $24.61 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012020823 |
| Series: Everyman's Library |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 5.42" W x 8.09" (1.32 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |