Parrot and Olivier in America — Peter Carey

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Group Australia
Format: Softcover
Edition: Paperback Edition, 2010
ISBN: 9781926428246

Condition: Good second-hand condition with light shelf wear and minor edge wear to covers. Binding is firm and pages are clean throughout. Small retail sticker to rear cover. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Parrot and Olivier in America is a sweeping historical novel from two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. Inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the novel follows Olivier, a young French aristocrat escaping revolutionary France, and Parrot, the English-born son of a printer who becomes his servant, protector, rival, and unlikely friend.