The Resource Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
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- Summary
- "From the two time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art"--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307592620
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America
- Title
- Parrot and Olivier in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Carey
- Title variation
- Parrot & Olivier in America
- Subject
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- French fiction
- Picaresque fiction
- Picaresque fiction
- trueSocial classes
- trueSpies
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Voyages and travels
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- America
- America -- Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction
- trueCultural differences
- trueDemocracy -- History -- 19th century
- Democracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Fiction
- France
- French fiction -- America
- trueFrench in the United States
- trueFriendship
- Male friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Master and servant
- Master and servant -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the two time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art"--Jacket
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 338778
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, Peter
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aristocracy (Social class)
- French fiction
- Voyages and travels
- Master and servant
- Male friendship
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- French fiction
- Male friendship
- Master and servant
- Voyages and travels
- America
- America
- France
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 764347
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307592620
- Lccn
- 2009047435
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780307592620
- (OCoLC)429022028
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 764347
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307592620
- Lccn
- 2009047435
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780307592620
- (OCoLC)429022028
Subject
- French fiction
- Picaresque fiction
- Picaresque fiction
- trueSocial classes
- trueSpies
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Voyages and travels
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- America
- America -- Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction
- trueCultural differences
- trueDemocracy -- History -- 19th century
- Democracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Fiction
- France
- French fiction -- America
- trueFrench in the United States
- trueFriendship
- Male friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Master and servant
- Master and servant -- Fiction
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