Awards
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
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The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-nineteenth-century America.
Olivier - an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville - is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. They are born on different sides of history, but 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, and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
Olivier - an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville - is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. They are born on different sides of history, but 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, and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
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Used availability for Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America
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Hardback Editions
August 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Stafford Carey ISBN: 1-4104-2860-5 / 978-1-4104-2860-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-307-35834-8 / 978-0-307-35834-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-307-59262-6 / 978-0-307-59262-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-25329-6 / 978-0-571-25329-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-26934-6 / 978-0-571-26934-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2009 : Hardback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (Penguin) Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-25332-6 / 978-0-571-25332-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-307-35835-6 / 978-0-307-35835-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-307-47601-4 / 978-0-307-47601-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-27515-X / 978-0-571-27515-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
August 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-25331-8 / 978-0-571-25331-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 0-571-25330-X / 978-0-571-25330-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2009 : Paperback
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey Publisher: Vintage International Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
July 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Parrot and Oliver in America (Unabridged audiobook) Author(s): Peter Carey, narrated by Gordon Griffin & Jonathan Keeble ISBN: 1-4074-5914-7 / 978-1-4074-5914-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Parrot & Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Stafford Carey ISBN: 1-4417-2974-7 / 978-1-4417-2974-3 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Parrot & Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Stafford Carey ISBN: 1-4417-2975-5 / 978-1-4417-2975-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Parrot & Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Stafford Carey ISBN: 1-4417-2977-1 / 978-1-4417-2977-4 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : MP3 CD
| Title: Parrot & Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Stafford Carey ISBN: 1-4417-2978-X / 978-1-4417-2978-1 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
2011 : Unknown
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America (Vintage International) [Paperback] Author(s): Peter Carey (Author) Availability: Amazon More details... |
May 2010 : Unknown
| Title: Parrot & Olivier in America [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): Peter Carey ISBN: 1-4417-2981-X / 978-1-4417-2981-1 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon More details... |
February 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Parrot and Olivier in America Author(s): Peter Carey Publisher: Faber and Faber Fiction Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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