Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes audiobook

Flaubert's Parrot

By Julian Barnes
Read by Simon Vance

Recorded Books, Inc. 9780394542720

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: Library CD
  • 2 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781980082613

  • ISBN: 9798212644105

Runtime: 6.94 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Narration in Literary Fiction

Julian Barnes pens 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“With his customary grace and dry British wit, Simon Vance matches the tone and tenor of this decidedly erudite and playfully imaginative literary biography…Sounding like a gentleman holding court in his drawing room, Vance introduces listeners to Flaubert’s life…the way a good biography should sound. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“Sly, quite witty, and very smart: an elegant meditation on the precincts of Art and Life, embodied in that great polar-bear of these two antipodes—Flaubert.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Serv[es] as capsule biography, work of critical art, record of cross-generational authorial jealousy, and a portrait of obsession…The protagonist meditates on Madame Bovary, while giving us quick glimpses into the source of his own fixation on the novel.” —Publishers Weekly

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Author

Author Bio: Julian Barnes

Author Bio: Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of numerous novels, as well as several books of short stories and collections of journalism. In addition to the Man Booker Prize, his other honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

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Details

Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 6.94
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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