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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)
30 de jan. de 2010 · Battered and picaresque, Parrot is an odd man out, living an odd, incoherent life. The relationship between Parrot and Olivier is a substantial element of the story, and often a very funny one.
26 de out. de 2009 · Narrated in amusing voice by Humphrey Bower, Parrot and Olivier in America illustrates with broad swathes of the pen-as-sword, the industrious and plebian democratists making a country they can live in.
- (7,5K)
- Hardcover
20 de abr. de 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.
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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.
About Parrot and Olivier in America. Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award Finalist Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America.
1 de jan. de 2010 · And when Olivier sets sail for America - ostensibly to make a study of the American penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from the latest guillotineurs - Parrot, unable to loosen the Marquis's grip, is there as spy, scribe, comptroller, protector, foe and foil.As the narrative unfurls, shifting between the perspectives of Olivier and...
- Peter Carey
