- Title:
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Parrot and Olivier in America
- Written by:
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Peter Carey
- Published by:
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
- Published:
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November 01 2009
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Number of CDs / Tapes:
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14
- Duration:
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17 hours 45 minutes
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- Genre:
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General
- Available Date:
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November 28 2009
- ISBN:
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9781742335315
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781742335315
- BAB:
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MP3 091136;CD 091147
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About this book:
Simultaneous release of a dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia's most internationally acclaimed novelist.
"Richly atmospheric, this wonderful novel is picaresque and Dickensian, with humor and insight injected into an accurately rendered period of french and American history."-starred, Publishers Weekly
"Gorgeously entertaining and moving....This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul." - O, the Oprah Magazine
"Parrot and Olivier in America grabs its subject and marches down Main Street playing full out, provoking a reader's delighted applause." - New York Times
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new experiment, America? A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.