![]() ![]() This friend-Tilbot-suggests that, because there are rumors that Olivier is a spy, Olivier and Parrot should flee to America together. ![]() He eventually meets Olivier through a mutual friend of Olivier's mother. One day, the printing house burns down, and Parrot sees a chance to escape. Meanwhile, Parrot grows up in working-class England, where his father works for a printer, and Parrot spends his days taking care of Watkins, an elderly engraver and counterfeiter. Born to members of the French aristocracy, Olivier grows up a strange, unhealthy, and eternally curious boy. ![]() As the novel opens, Olivier recalls his childhood. Parrot and Olivier in America was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. ![]() With Olivier the product of the French elite, and Parrot coming from a poverty-stricken background, the story illuminates the social divides between the two men as they each set off to find their fate on American shores. Inspired by the life of French diplomat and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, Australian author Peter Carey’s historical novel Parrot and Olivier in America (2010) follows Olivier de Garmont and his secretary, Parrot, as they come to eighteenth-century America to explore the nation's penal system. ![]()
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