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I enjoyed this work but not because it is a good novel. If you want to read a straightforward story this would not be a good choice. I would describe this as a book that is many things. It is a biographical story of Gustave Flaubert. It is a discussion of literary techniques and writing and within these aspects is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is traveling around France searching out truths of Gustave Flaubert. It starts with the Parrot, the stuffed parrot that was borr
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This novel is about a biographer who visits Rouen to explore museums dedicated to Gustave Flaubert. He discovers that two different museums have a stuffed parrot on display, and both claim they have THE parrot Flaubert had on his desk for a few weeks while writing about a parrot. The writer becomes obsessed with tracking down the truth about which parrot Flaubert had on his desk.
The novel explores Flaubert's life, and in my opinion is a cheap trick to con novel-readers into reading and buying a ...more
The novel explores Flaubert's life, and in my opinion is a cheap trick to con novel-readers into reading and buying a ...more
Feb 15, 2009
Andre Mitchell
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Diane
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