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Parrot and Olivier in America

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	Peter Carey
	Narrator :	Humphrey Bower

	Length :	17 hours 36 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$27.99

Format :		Downloadable MP3

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“Peter Carey is still the master.”—Washington Post Book Review

"Parrot and Olivier in America grabs its subject and marches down Main Street playing full out, provoking a reader's delighted applause."--New York Times

"Gorgeously entertaining and moving....This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"Smart, charming and original....Carey writes about America with a deeply felt but unsentimental sense of affection."--NPR.org

Amazon Best Books of the Month April 2010

On Oprah's Summer Reading List for 2010

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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. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined 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. As the narrative shifts between Parrot and Olivier—their adventures in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness.

Humphrey Bower is a gifted and versatile actor. Since obtaining a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at OxfordUniversity he has worked extensively in theatre, television and audiobook narration. Humphrey won the prestigious Audie Award (US) for his performance of The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay, and has been shortlisted for an Audie Award for his performances of Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan and Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay. Humphrey's sensitive and intelligent readings are highly regarded and he is well known for his capacity to perform a variety of accents. Other books narrated for Bolinda Audio include CapeGrimm by Carmel Bird and The Turning by Tim Winton.

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