Parrot and Olivier in America - Softcover

Carey, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571253318 ISBN 13: 9780571253319

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2010

Synopsis

Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together 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 – Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.

About this title

Review:

A tour de force, a wonderfully dizzying succession of adventures and vivid, at times caricatured, characters executed with great panache. --The Sydney Morning Herald

Book Description:

From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author, an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0571253318
• ISBN 13: 9780571253319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592