Parrot and Olivier in America

Carey, Peter

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Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award Finalist 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. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives are joined when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his neck from one more revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil. With the story of their unlikely friendship, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with the dazzling inventiveness and richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
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Carey, Peter
Titel
Parrot and Olivier in America
Uitgever
Random House
Jaar
2011
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
400
Gewicht
299 gr
EAN
9780307476012
Afmetingen
203 x 133 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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