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Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". none. A signed first UK edition, first impression of Peter Carey's Booker Prize novel. This signed first UK edition, first impression, of celebrated Australian novelist Peter Carey's 'Parrot and Olivier in America' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010. The novel is an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, following a French aristocrat and his English servant as they set sail for the New World to save their necks from another revolution. Peter Carey is a highly acclaimed Australian writer, frequently cited as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. With unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. A book dazzling with wit and inventiveness, Carey's 'Parrot and Olivier in America' is a novel of adventure, love, politics and prisons. In the publisher's original cloth hardback binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. The dustwrapper is very smart, with only some very minor shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, and some facsimile spotting to the pictures of the covers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Synopsis
Peter Carey, a world-renowned novelist and Booker Prize winner based in New York, is one of only two writers to have won the Booker prize twice. He is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this novel you get everything that you expect from Carey, an inexhaustible imagination, bold narration and vivacious imagery. This adventure is loosely based on the real-life travels of the 19th- century political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, who’s Democracy in America, is a classic early work of sociology. It follows two Old World protagonists – one from France, one from England – and sets them down in New York in the mid-19th century. From there you can appreciate where this story is going with a premise that evokes the immigrant experience and delivers unexpected, and often hilarious twists and turns.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 670H7
- Title
- Parrot and Olivier in America
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Illustrator
- none
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 9.5" by 6.5"
- Keywords
- Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America First Edition Signed Parrot and Olivier in America
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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