Parrot And Olivier In America
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when an aristocratic French idealist and his roguish, working-class English manservant are thrown together in the raw, teeming chaos of early nineteenth-century America? Parrot and Olivier in America answers that question with verve, wit, and piercing intelligence, chronicling the mismatched adventures of Olivier de Garmont — a thinly veiled reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville — and his sardonic, street-smart servant John Larrit, known as Parrot, as they traverse a young republic bursting with democratic energy, contradictions, and danger. Loosely inspired by the journey that gave birth to Democracy in America, Peter Carey's novel unfolds across a vivid landscape of prisons, parlours, and frontier wilderness, capturing a nation simultaneously inventing and destroying itself. Carey brings to the novel his trademark narrative dexterity, weaving dual first-person voices that crackle with irony and mutual incomprehension, illuminating the vast gulfs of class, nationality, and ambition that divide his two protagonists even as circumstance binds them ever closer. A shortlisted Booker Prize novel, Parrot and Olivier in America stands as a richly layered meditation on liberty, democracy, and the elasticity of identity — and leaves the reader wondering, in the end, which of the two men was truly free.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 2009, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when an aristocratic French idealist and his roguish, working-class English manservant are thrown together in the raw, teeming chaos of early nineteenth-century America? Parrot and Olivier in America answers that question with verve, wit, and piercing intelligence, chronicling the mismatched adventures of Olivier de Garmont — a thinly veiled reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville — and his sardonic, street-smart servant John Larrit, known as Parrot, as they traverse a young republic bursting with democratic energy, contradictions, and danger. Loosely inspired by the journey that gave birth to Democracy in America, Peter Carey's novel unfolds across a vivid landscape of prisons, parlours, and frontier wilderness, capturing a nation simultaneously inventing and destroying itself. Carey brings to the novel his trademark narrative dexterity, weaving dual first-person voices that crackle with irony and mutual incomprehension, illuminating the vast gulfs of class, nationality, and ambition that divide his two protagonists even as circumstance binds them ever closer. A shortlisted Booker Prize novel, Parrot and Olivier in America stands as a richly layered meditation on liberty, democracy, and the elasticity of identity — and leaves the reader wondering, in the end, which of the two men was truly free.