Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey himself.
| ISBN: | 9780099540588 |
| Publication date: | 2nd July 2009 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 190 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction |