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Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award.
- Peter Carey
- 464 pp
- 2009
- 2009 (Australia), 2010 (US & UK)
26 de out. de 2009 · Peter Carey. 3.44. 7,509 ratings1,048 reviews. A dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia's most internationally acclaimed novelist. Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution.
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- Hardcover
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.
- Paperback
30 de jan. de 2010 · Parrot tells us the other half – and Parrot's role remains a considerable mystery. As Olivier is one of the privileged, Parrot certainly is one of the downtrodden, but he's scarcely your...
The family makes a small comeback when the Bourbons are restored to the throne, but in 1831, a year after the July Revolution, Olivier, a rising young lawyer, decides to push off to America.
Parrot and Olivier in America is a dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous journey, brilliantly evoking the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny and deeply tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art. Peter Carey -
16 de abr. de 2010 · So it is that any tutoyering bourgeois and his wife can know the Comtesse de Garmont sang about the dead king and cried, but nothing would ever reveal to them Olivier de Garmont's fearful ...
