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Parrot and Olivier in America / Peter Carey.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.C36 P37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Peter, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Social class)--France--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- French--America--Fiction.
- French.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Master and servant--Fiction.
- Master and servant.
- America.
- France.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- America--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- Summary:
- Olivier is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected in the United States by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Australia : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.
- ISBN:
- 9780307592620
- 0307592626
- OCLC:
- 429022028
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