BARNES, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot. London: Jonathan Cape. 1984.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust jacket with printed price of £8.50 to front flap; pp. 190, [2, (blank)]; a few spots to front flap of jacket, a touch bumped to head of spine and lower left corner of rear board; author's signature in black ink to title page; a very near fine copy, in like jacket.
First edition, first printing, signed by the author; an uncommonly sharp and bright copy.
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes’ third (and breakthrough) novel, follows the enigmatic Geoffrey Braithwaite, a widowed, retired English doctor and amateur Flaubert scholar, as he travels through France in search of Flaubert's fabled parrot. Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize (which Barnes would eventually win in 2011), the novel is at once a cornucopian feast of information about the great French novelist, a masterclass in narrative obliquity, and a touching story of love and loss.
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