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3 de fev. de 2011 · Buy Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
16 de abr. de 2010 · April 16, 2010. Chapter 1. I had no doubt that something cruel and catastrophic had happened before I was even born, yet the comte and comtesse, my parents, would not tell me what it was. As a ...
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 ...
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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
1 de jan. de 2010 · Parrot and Olivier in America. Paperback – January 1, 2010. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.With dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come ...
- Peter Carey
Other articles where Parrot and Olivier in America is discussed: Australian literature: Literature in the 21st century: Carey’s other 21st-century efforts included Parrot and Olivier in America (2009), focusing on a character modeled on 19th-century French social observer Alexis de Tocqueville, and Amnesia (2015), which employs cybercrime as the lens through which to view the Battle of ...
