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Parrot and Olivier in America Cover Image Book Book

Parrot and Olivier in America

Carey, Peter 1943- (Author).

Summary: Set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville. Olivier is the son of French aristocrats who (barely) survived the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerate English printer. Fate finds them together on a picaresque adventure in the New World.

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  • ISBN: 0307358348
  • ISBN: 9780307358349 (hc)
  • ISBN: 9780307358349 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780307358356 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    379 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2010.

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General Note:
Originally published: Australia : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.

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Subject: Tocqueville, Alexis de -- 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States -- Fiction
French -- Fiction
Master and servant -- Fiction
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
Spy stories
United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Fiction
Genre: Adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
Adenture fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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