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  Parrot and Olivier in America (Hardback) By (author) Peter Stafford Carey

  

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  Short Description for Parrot and Olivier in AmericaFrom the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-19th-century America.
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  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Published: 20 April 2010
  • Format: Hardback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780307592620 ISBN 10: 0307592626
  • Sales rank: 122,783

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• "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 politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands--a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.