num_pages: 464
description: Simultaneous release of a dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia's most internationally acclaimed novelist.Olivier is a young aristocrat one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him as spy protector foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money incarceration and democracy writing and painting they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious brand-new experiment America? A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all it is a wildly funny tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship and a completely improbable work of art.
language: English
title: Parrot and Olivier in America
publisher: Hamish Hamilton