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Parrot and Olivier in America
Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author)
ISBN: 0307476014     ISBN-13: 9780307476012
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $19.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Political
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010549678
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.26" W x 7.96" (0.66 lbs) 400 pages
 
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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.