{"product_id":"2026100009389-secondhand-parrot-and-olivier-in-america","title":"Parrot And Olivier In America","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nCarey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203123192027,"sku":"2026100009389-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/37018755-77a5-4cf2-8ff5-14140c9bba7b.png?v=1788144645","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009389-secondhand-parrot-and-olivier-in-america","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}