{"product_id":"parrot-and-olivier-in-america-paperback","title":"Parrot and Olivier in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Carey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eNational Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlivier--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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Carey is the author of ten previous novels and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 7.96 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759292809504,"sku":"9780307476012","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a6df65524b79886b048c5cec0e2b65fc.webp?v=1780148326","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/parrot-and-olivier-in-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}