{"product_id":"parrot-and-olivier-in-america-9780307476012","title":"Parrot and Olivier in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eNational Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlivier--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 are joined when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his neck from one more revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil. With the story of their unlikely friendship, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with the dazzling inventiveness and richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307476012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/21\/2011 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/30\/2011 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Carey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204920869045,"sku":"9780307476012","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5f5ce070-4ffa-4e7c-9017-7c3514f4691b.jpg?v=1698126696","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/parrot-and-olivier-in-america-9780307476012","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}