Book · 1984 · Fiction

Flaubert's Parrot

Name: Flaubert's Parrot
Author: Julian Barnes

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 190 pages

★ 5.4 editorial score

Barnes sends a retired English doctor after the stuffed parrot once on Flaubert's desk. The search becomes chronologies, a bestiary, a mock exam, and under all of it the doctor's dead wife.

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