Parrot and Olivier in America
$21.25
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
A dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia’s most internationally acclaimed novelist.
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World—ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution—Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. They are an unlikely pair, but where better for unlikely thin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760896485 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760896489 |
| Author: | Peter Carey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 442g |
| Dimensions: | 333mm x 130mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
Peter Carey
Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs). He is an officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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