Parrot and Olivier in America - Softcover

Carey, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571253326 ISBN 13: 9780571253326

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2011

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'I finished it with unabated enjoyment ... Dazzling.' --Guardian

'Carey is a wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale.' --The Times

'Fizzes with the same fictional panache that has twice won Carey the Booker prize.' --Sunday Times

'Carey is a wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale.' --The Times

'Fizzing with fictional panache ... Exhilarating.' --Sunday Times

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Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571253326
• ISBN 13: 9780571253326
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592