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Both Parrot and Olivier are profoundly affected by the democratic leveling of class distinctions they find in America. Olivier is alternately repulsed and fascinated, disdainful and admiring of the new democracy, while Parrot, after drifting aimlessly, finally finds the freedom he’s been denied all his life.
12 de fev. de 2010 · Parrot and his mistress build a new life in America. Olivier must face the question of whether what this newfoundland and the alluring Miss Godefroy have to offer would be worth the loss of his ...
"Parrot and Olivier in America is a tour de force, a wonderfully dizzying succession of adventures and vivid, at times caricatured, characters executed with great panache. Telling this intricate story is shared by Olivier and Parrot in alternate chapters, a clumsy device in some hands but highly successful in Carey's."
Book Summary. 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.
At its heart, Parrot and Olivier in America is a western; the simplest story in history, sculpted down to a twinkle in a philosopher’s eye: Man’s search for freedom.” — Los Angeles Times “Carey’s traditional strengths are here in abundance: rich and meticulously researched detail, a soaring imagination, wonderfully inventive imagery and, most welcome of all, a caustic wit.”
- Peter Carey
20 de abr. de 2010 · Parrot is an engraver, a skilled tradesman who was brought up (sort of) by his father, apprenticed at an early age, and now assigned to spy on (in the guise of serving) Olivier. Parrot’s subservience rankles him, his young charge annoys him. But, like thousands of American immigrants before them, the new democracy throws these Europeans of ...
14 de fev. de 2010 · Parrot and Olivier in America, By Peter Carey A young French aristocrat escapes to America, only to risk all by falling in love with a nascent democracy. Reviewed, Robert Epstein.
