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Parrot & Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307592626
- ISBN 13
- 9780307592620
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. SIGNED and DATED. NF/NF. Stated First American Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. Signed and dated "Peter Carey 4-28-10" on the title page. Carey has drawn a line through America and written Dallas above it. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean boards. Faint crease to spine and the top front corner. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) with faint wear to the spine head and a crinkle to the top front corner (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 380 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is an aristocrat born just after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives intersect and join when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save himself from yet another revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil.
Short-listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
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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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3644
- Title
- Parrot & Olivier in America
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307592626
- ISBN 13
- 9780307592620
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 380
- Size
- 6.5 x 9.5
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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