Parrot and Olivier in America Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Peter Carey
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
212

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey Book Summary

Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.


From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.

Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.

When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier.

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.

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Book Name Parrot and Olivier in America
Genre Literary Fiction
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Language English
E-Book Size 7.17 MB

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Summary of Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

The Parrot and Olivier in America book written by Peter Carey was published on 20 April 2010, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 212 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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