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592 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374137229
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert...
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592 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374137229
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert...