Parrot and Olivier in America
By Peter Carey Hardback – 450 pages (Available form Amazon for $28.53 or ebay for $26.95) Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revol