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Parrot And Olivier In America

DATE: 2019-04-12  SIZE: 753.99 KB  DISKS: 1x 10MB     PAGES: n/a

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber                     GENRE:

AUTHOR: Peter Carey

FORMAT: EPUB  PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a

URL: https://is.gd/qJ9rHF

LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9780571253333

: 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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