Parrot And Olivier In America

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: Hawthorn
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 451 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new experiment, America? A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.

ISBN: 9781926428147