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Parrot & Olivier in America
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307358348
- ISBN 13
- 9780307358349
- Seller
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About This Item
Toronto: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307358348 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Flat-signed by author on title page. ; First impression of Canadian first edition. Flat-signed by Carey on title page.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Peter Carey, a world-renowned novelist and Booker Prize winner based in New York, is one of only two writers to have won the Booker prize twice. He is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this novel you get everything that you expect from Carey, an inexhaustible imagination, bold narration and vivacious imagery. This adventure is loosely based on the real-life travels of the 19th- century political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, who’s Democracy in America, is a classic early work of sociology. It follows two Old World protagonists – one from France, one from England – and sets them down in New York in the mid-19th century. From there you can appreciate where this story is going with a premise that evokes the immigrant experience and delivers unexpected, and often hilarious twists and turns.
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- Bookseller
- A Good Read
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48883
- Title
- Parrot & Olivier in America
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307358348
- ISBN 13
- 9780307358349
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 0307358348
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