Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, was published in 1992, and he has written nine others—most recently Flight—along with two collections of stories and five books of poetry. He lives in France with his wife and family.
“What leaves me reeling with each rereading (and Adam Thorpe’s new
translation is, pardon the pun, to die for) is the use of language.
There can be no doubt as to the reason for Flaubert’s brain popping
at the top of the stairs when he was fifty-eight. He broke it
scouring for perfect sentences, words, le mot juste.”—Russell Kane,
The Independent
“Flaubert described his great work as a poem, so it is fitting that
a poet and novelist of Thorpe’s stature should turn his hand to
it.”—Robin Robertson, The Herald (Scotland)
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