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Flaubert's Parrot Audiobook
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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.
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"Took me a long time to get into it, but I'm glad I persevered. Only my second Barnes book (after Metroland) and - I think - widely thought of as his magnum opus, I personally preferred the earlier book. I will read more by him though. "
— Robert (4 out of 5 stars)
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" Fantastic book! Both inventive and moving. "
— Sherwood, 4/28/2011 -
" found a first edition hardback with a david hockney cover art @ booksale for only P45 :-0 as enjoyable a read as when my brother alvin first introduced me to this fabulist years ago. "
— Vivencio, 3/21/2011 -
" Not TOTALLY boring, I suppose. One interesting chapter. "
— Caroline, 12/28/2010 -
" Witty, poignant, caustic. But how much is actually true? "
— Rose, 8/26/2010 -
" What a marvelous book to enjoy! I found myself smiling or smirking at least once a page, enjoy chuckling out loud. Each "chapter" can stand alone, a gem unto itself. "
— Phil, 7/28/2010
About 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.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.