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Also by Peter Carey:

The Chemistry of Tears, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Parrot and Olivier in America, January 2011
Paperback
Parrot and Olivier in America, May 2010
Hardcover
His Illegal Self, February 2008
Hardcover
Theft, May 2006
Hardcover

PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA
By: Peter Carey

Vintage
January 2011
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Featuring: Alexis de Tocqueville
400 pages
ISBN: 0307476014
EAN: 9780307476012
Paperback
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Fiction Family Life | Historical

Man Booker Prize Finalist National Book Award Finalist

Two-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.

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