Parrot And Olivier In America by Peter Carey

Parrot and Olivier in America is a dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia''s most internationally acclaimed novelist. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. They are an unlikely pair, but where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new democratic experiment, America? And who better than Carey to show what Americans do not always wish to see- that their earliest observers included some who foresaw disastrous consequences for that experiment, well before they became headlines around the world.

Publisher:	Penguin
Year:	2011
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780143203520
Condition:	Very Good

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SKU: 1591843
Location: Fiction