2011, ISBN: 9780394542720

Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1985. 384pp, index, appendix, num col & bw plates, col photos, charts and diagrams. Or pictorial laminated boards. Cover has slight scrape on… Plus…

Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1985. 384pp, index, appendix, num col & bw plates, col photos, charts and diagrams. Or pictorial laminated boards. Cover has slight scrape on top edge. A collection of 31 essays by eminent authorities on various aspects of forest and woodland birds. Sections are Bird Communities in Forests and Woodlands; Ecology and Adaptations of Forest and Woodland Birds; & Human Impact: The Response of Forest and Woodland Bird Communities. Numerous full page color plates, as well as a section of color photographs of birds and habitats. Numerous charts and diagrams throughout. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Mcfarland, D.; Milledge, D. & Trompp, J.. Folio., Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1985, 4, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. David Hockney (Jacket art). 190 pages. Postcard referencing the book laid in. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. Barnes's breakthrough novel Flaubert's Parrot (1984) departed from the traditional linear structure of his previous novels and featured a fragmentary biographical style story of an elderly doctor, Geoffrey Braithwaite, who focuses obsessively on the life of Gustave Flaubert. In reference to Flaubert, Barnes has said, "he's the writer whose words I most carefully tend to weigh, who I think has spoken the most truth about writing." Flaubert's Parrot was published to great acclaim, especially in France, and it helped established Barnes as one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation. In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. This book is a richly inventive, as well as audacious effort to depict, with great exactitude, Flaubert's unsettling condition of genius. The author has introduced into his literary meditation a high element of risk and an enchanting spirit of play to enrich our understanding. This novel is peppered with clues to the truth about its enigmatic narrator: Goeffrey Braithwaite, a retired English physician and obsessive amateur Flaubert scholar, an intensely private man whose own moving story emerges through his highly idiosyncratic ordering and presentation of certain things he knows about Flaubert. A novel whose true (dual) protagonists--invisible but omnipresent--are Life and Art, in constant collision, strange bedfellows on every page: as Flaubert's life is revealed to be mirrored in his art, as Braithwaite's art borrows from Flaubert's, as Flaubert's art encroches on Braithwaite's life, and so on in ever more remarkable permutations. Derived from a Kirkus review: Sly, quite witty, and very smart: an elegant meditation on the precincts of Art and Life, embodied in that great polar-bear of these two antipodes-Flaubert. English critic and novelist Barnes gives over the narration of this playful but quite serious literary investigation to a fictional retired doctor, Geoffrey Braithwaite, an amateur Flaubert scholar whose wife has recently committed suicide. Braithwaite is a dazzling, easy-going, discriminating guide-whether tracking down the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk or giving poor maligned Louise Colet a rebuttal opportunity, whether discussing friends. . . or the place of trains in Flaubert's life. As criticism of criticism, too, the novel is deliciously sane and supple, especially when skewering critics from Sartre to Enid Starkie-who complained that the color of Emma Bovary's eyes changes on different pages of the novel. Braithwaite's tangential dictates against fashion in fiction will delight anyone who knows the territory. Indeed, Braithwaite/Barnes is continuously entertaining and telling-as he acidly dismisses some of the many stupid "accepted ideas" about Flaubert, as he drily satirizes literary obtuseness in its assorted flavors. So-for connoisseurs of Flaubert or of fiction generally: an economical, balanced, gliding defense of the artist and his art-cast in an oddly undefinable form that's very special but never precious., Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, 2.75<

ISBN: 9780394542720

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… Plus…

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Knopf, 2.5<

1985, ISBN: 9780394542720

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include t… Plus…

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf]<

1985, ISBN: 9780394542720

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1985, ISBN: 039454272X

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