Parrot and Olivier in America
By Peter Carey
Produced by Chris Chapple
Read by Humphrey Bower
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Olivier (a fictional variation 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. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined 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 Parrot and Olivier—their adventures 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 adventure of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness.
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Summary
Summary
A 2010 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
A 2010 Man Booker Prize Finalist
On Oprah’s Summer Reading List for 2010
An AudioFile Editors’ Pick
One of 2010 New York Magazine Top 10 Books
A 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for Fiction
Selected for the May 2010 Indie Next List
A 2010 Publishers Weekly Best Book for Fiction
A BookPage Book of the Day, January 2011
One of 2010 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books for Fiction
Olivier (a fictional variation 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. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined 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 Parrot and Olivier—their adventures 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 adventure of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 17.60 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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