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Parrot and Olivier in America 

Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
A novel by Peter Carey

 
Awards
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.

 
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Hardback Editions

August 2010 : Hardback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 1410428605 / 9781410428608 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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April 2010 : Hardback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0307592626 / 9780307592620 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf
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April 2010 : Hardback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0307358348 / 9780307358349 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Canada
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January 2010 : Hardback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0571269346 / 9780571269341 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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February 2010 : Hardback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0571253296 / 9780571253296 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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Paperback Editions

January 2011 : Paperback
Title: [Parrot and Olivier in America] [by: Peter Carey]
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0307358356 / 9780307358356 (USA edition)
Publisher:
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February 2011 : Paperback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0571253326 / 9780571253326 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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January 2011 : Paperback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0307476014 / 9780307476012 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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October 2010 : Paperback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 057127515X / 9780571275151 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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August 2010 : Paperback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 0571253318 / 9780571253319 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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February 2010 : Paperback
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 057125330X / 9780571253302 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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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: 1407459147 / 9781407459141 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books
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April 2010 : Audio Cassette
Title: Parrot & Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Stafford Carey
ISBN: 1441729747 / 9781441729743
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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April 2010 : Audio CD
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: 1441729771 / 9781441729774
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
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April 2010 : Audio CD
Title: Parrot & Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Stafford Carey
ISBN: 1441729755 / 9781441729750
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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April 2010 : MP3 CD
Title: Parrot & Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Stafford Carey
ISBN: 144172978X / 9781441729781
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Kindle Editions

April 2010 : Kindle edition
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: B0036S4AOU
Publisher: Vintage
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February 2010 : Kindle edition
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Author(s):: Peter Carey
ISBN: B0037B6QA2
Publisher: Faber and Faber Fiction
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