Flaubert's Parrot (inscribed)
by Barnes, Julian
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0330289764
- ISBN 13
- 9780330289764
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1985 reprint. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; edge foxing; else a clean, complete & tight copy] On the Booker Prize short list, this novel won the 1985 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Cover praise from Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Germaine Greer, John Irving, John Fowles, et al.
Synopsis
An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality
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- Bookseller
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19014
- Title
- Flaubert's Parrot (inscribed)
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1985 reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0330289764
- ISBN 13
- 9780330289764
- Publisher
- London: Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- December 1997
- Keywords
- BRITISH FICTION GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER SIGNED COLLECTIBLE COPY
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Fiction;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
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