Parrot and Olivier in America

Vintage (Jan 11, 2011)

9780307476012

| Trade Paperback

381 pages | 133 x 210 mm

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LC Classification PR9619.3.C36 .P37 2011

LC Control No. 2010549678

Genre

Adventure Fiction

Subject

America - Fiction
Aristocracy (Social Class) - Fiction. - France
French - Fiction. - America
Male Friendship - Fiction
Master And Servant - Fiction
Voyages And Travels - Fiction

Plot

Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-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. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is an aristocrat born just after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives are joined when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his neck from one more revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil. With the story of their unlikely friendship, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with the dazzling inventiveness and richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.