Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Parrot and Olivier in America

Carey, Peter.

Parrot and Olivier in America - New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 6/22/2010 - 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Olivier 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 in the United States by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.

Originally published: Australia : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.

9780307592620 (alk. paper) 0307592626 (alk. paper)

2009047435


Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction.
French -- America -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Master and servant -- Fiction.

--Male friendship -- Fiction.