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Parrot and Olivier in America by Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review __. Carey brings de Tocqueville to life through the fictionalized character of Olivier de Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristocrat. Olivier can only begin to grasp how the other half lives when forced to travel to the New World with John "Parrot" Larrit, a jaded survivor of lifelong hardship who can’t stand his young master who he is expected to spy on for the overprotective Maman Garmont back in Paris. Parrot and Olivier are a mid-nineteenth-century Oscar and Felix who represent the highest and lowest social registers of the Old World, yet find themselves unexpectedly pushed together in the New World. This odd couple’s stark differences in class and background, outlook and attitude—which are explored in alternating chapters narrated by each—are an ingenious conceit for presenting to contemporary readers the unique social experiment that was democracy in the early years of America. --Lauren Nemroff The Democracy of Story-Telling: A Review of Parrot and Olivier in America by Colum McCann Parrot and Olivier in America : Faulkner famously wrote that the past is not dead, it's not even past. Every now and then a voice comes along to make the proper claim

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Author

Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307592620

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.42 / 5 (228 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14