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Parrot and Olivier in America / Peter Carey.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Carey Parrot
Available from offsite location
- 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.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- America--Fiction.
- America.
- Australian fiction--21st century.
- Australian fiction.
- Genre:
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 379 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- Summary:
- "From the two time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - 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"--Jacket
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780307592620 (alk. paper)
- 0307592626 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 429022028
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