Word: croisset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heart, in which a parrot is the last object of a gentle old woman's affection. Looking into its beady eye, Braithwaite suddenly feels close to his own idol. But, he ruminates, "the writer's voice--what makes you think it can be located that easily?" Sure enough, in Croisset, the village where Flaubert lived, there is another collection of memorabilia, and, yes, another parrot. Undeterred, the narrator sets out to determine which little bundle of feathers is authentic...