Author: CAREY, PETER
Title: Parrot and Olivier in America
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307592626. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some rippling of front panel of dust jacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 380 pages; "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. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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