{"product_id":"a-simple-heart-gustave-flaubert-9780811213189","title":"A Simple Heart","description":"In \u003cem\u003eA Simple Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' \u003cem\u003eFlaubert's Parrot\u003c\/em\u003e, Félicité, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's great saint endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. This novella showcases Flaubert's perfectly honed realism: a delicate counterpoint of daily events with their psychological repercussions. Flaubert is diagnosis, Ezra Pound wrote, the whole of Flaubert, the whole fight for the novel as 'histoire morale contemporaine' was a fight against maxims, against abstractions, a fight back toward a human and\/or total conception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Flausbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811213188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811213189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.06h x 4.78w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/1996 pg. 180","brand":"Gustave Flaubert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996145484031,"sku":"9780811213189","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca57be30-b370-494f-91e4-ab04ac36a100.jpg?v=1683339984","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-simple-heart-gustave-flaubert-9780811213189","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}