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Flaubert's parrot

by Julian Barnes

A retired English doctor obsessed with the French writer Gustave Flaubert examines the author's life, gradually revealing secrets of his own in a narrative that blends fiction, biography, and literary criticism.

Accession 36605 ISBN 0224022229 Publisher Jonathan Cape
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