Parrot & Olivier in America (Compact Disc)

Parrot & Olivier in America By Peter Carey, Humphrey Bower (Read by), Chris Chapple (Producer) Cover Image

Parrot & Olivier in America (Compact Disc)

By Peter Carey, Humphrey Bower (Read by), Chris Chapple (Producer)

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“Snobbish, aristocratic Olivier, a fictional version of historian and political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, escapes the French Revolution to America with his angry servant, Parrot. Their lives become a grand adventure both historical and humorous.”
— Karen T. Harris, Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Vineyard Haven, MA

Olivier (a fictional variation of Alexis de Tocqueville) is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States--ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution--Parrot will be there, too, as spy for the marquis and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between Parrot and Olivier--their adventures in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands--a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness.

Product Details ISBN: 9781441729774
ISBN-10: 1441729771
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Publication Date: April 20th, 2010
Pages: 14
Language: English