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Parrot and Olivier in America

Parrot and Olivier in America - Paperback

by Peter Carey
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter CareySeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2011-01-11Pages:400
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307476012ISBN-10:307476014UPC:9780307476012Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PoliticalSize:7.96 x 5.26 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.66Product ID:SCEWMKD761

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307476012ISBN-10:307476014UPC:9780307476012Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PoliticalSize:7.96 x 5.26 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.66Product ID:SCEWMKD761
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.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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