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"As big and bold as [America] itself. . . . Carey at his finest. . . . He is a sheer magician with language." --The Miami Herald
"A brass-band burlesque of literature and history. . . .Provokes a reader's delighted applause. . . . Matchlessly robust." -The New York Times Book Review "Outrageous and witty. . . .Another feat of acrobatic ventriloquism, joining Carey's masterpieces, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang." -The Washington Post "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 "Delicious. . . .A comic historical picaresque. . . .[This] book has an eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality." -James Wood, The New Yorker "Re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville's American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating. . . . A rollicking debate about America and its opportunities, its society and class distinctions." --The Denver Post "Carey is as various, often as brilliant, and always as irreverent as they come." -The Boston Globe "An exuberant, entertaining, incisive novel, full of attitude and incident." --Dallas Morning News "Amusing and wise and graceful to a degree that we almost don't deserve." --Salon "An energetically intelligent novel. . . . It bristles like a hedgehog with all of Carey's spiky ideas. . . . There's enough to snag your imagination on, and to spare." --The Christian Science Monitor "Carey braids his story carefully, lovingly. . . .At its heart, Parrot and Olivier in America is a western; the simplest story in history, sculpted down to a twinkle in a philosopher's eye: Man's search for freedom." -Los Angeles TimesMan Booker Prize Finalist
National 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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