Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey · 2010
Buy on AmazonFrom the two-time Booker Prize--winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.…