Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

eBook - 2010

Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as... protector, foe, and foil for Olivier.As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Peter Carey
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0036S4AOU
Release Date4/20/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307593016
Release Date4/20/2010