- Title:
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Parrot and Olivier in America
- Written by:
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Peter Carey
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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14
- Duration:
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17 hours 40 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2009
- Available Date:
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November 28 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742335315
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Longlisted Dublin IMPAC Award 2011
Longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010
Shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Fiction Book Award 2010
Shortlisted The Man Booker Prize 2010
"Parrot and Olivier in America grabs its subject and marches down Main Street playing full out, provoking a reader's delighted applause."
The New York Times
"Gorgeously entertaining and moving....This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul."
O, The Oprah Magazine
A wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new experiment, America?
A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New.
"Smart, charming and original....Carey writes about America with a deeply felt but unsentimental sense of affection."
NPR.org