Parrot and Olivier in America

Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an...
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Parrot and Olivier in America by Carey, Peter

Parrot and Olivier in America

€28,41

Parrot and Olivier in America

€28,41
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Man Booker Prize Finalist
National Book Award Finalist

Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America.

Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is an aristocrat born just after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives are joined when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his neck from one more revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil. With the story of their unlikely friendship, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with the dazzling inventiveness and richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780307476012


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 01/21/2011 pg. 78
New York Times Book Review 01/30/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
Peter Carey is the author of ten previous novels and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for twenty years.


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