- Publisher: Faber
- Year: 2011
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 588pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x126mm
- Condition: New - Acceptable
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9780571253326
- Product code: 516485
Parrot and Olivier in America
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French aristocrat Olivier, born in the aftermath of the Revolution, sets sail for America with servant Parrot, whose aim in life was to be an artist. Shifting between each of the men, Carey’s narrative traces their picaresque travels and growing friendship as well as New World democracy. Off-mint.
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Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.
When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.
When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.
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French aristocrat Olivier, born in the aftermath of the Revolution, sets sail for America with servant Parrot, whose aim in life was to be an artist. Shifting between each of the men, Carey’s narrative traces their picaresque travels and growing friendship as well as New World democracy. <i>Off-mint.</i>
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