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Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize . [1] It was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award .
- Peter Carey
- 2009
Oct 26, 2009 · The author reinvents and imagines Alexis de Toqueville’s trip through America in Parrot and Olivier, Toqueville is represented by Olivier and through both Parrot’s (a servant) and Oliver’s (a noble) travel to America and first experiences of the democracy experiment.
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Jan 11, 2011 · 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.
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- 2009
- Peter Carey
Apr 20, 2010 · 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.
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May 11, 2010 · Peter Carey's new novel Parrot and Olivier in America is a retelling of the life of historian Alexis de Tocqueville in which a French aristocrat and his reluctant working-class companion...
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.
Jan 1, 2010 · Olivier has known only one life before coming to America; Parrot has lived through several lifetimes, and looks only to stop travelling, settle down, and discover what he really is. America provides that for him, as it so often does.
- Peter Carey
