The Resource Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
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The item Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Olivier is the child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Their wildly disparate lives will be permanently fused when Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States, with Parrot employed as his protector, foe, foil and, unbeknownst to him, as spy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 651 p. (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781410428608
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America
- Title
- Parrot and Olivier in America
- Statement of responsibility
- by Peter Carey
- Title variation
- Parrot & Olivier in America
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueDemocracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Large print books
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueSocial classes
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- trueAustralian fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- French -- America -- Fiction
- America -- Fiction
- trueSpies
- trueFriendship
- Master and servant -- Fiction
- trueCultural differences
- Adenture fiction
- truePicaresque fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction
- trueFrench in the United States
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Olivier is the child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Their wildly disparate lives will be permanently fused when Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States, with Parrot employed as his protector, foe, foil and, unbeknownst to him, as spy
- Summary
- A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son
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- 338778
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, Peter
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print historical fiction.
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- Aristocracy (Social class)
- French
- Master and servant
- Voyages and travels
- Male friendship
- America
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
- Control code
- 000045511040
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 651 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410428608
- Lccn
- 2010016262
- System control number
- (OCoLC)607575184
- Label
- Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
- Control code
- 000045511040
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 651 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410428608
- Lccn
- 2010016262
- System control number
- (OCoLC)607575184
Subject
- Adenture fiction
- America -- Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueCultural differences
- trueDemocracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- French -- America -- Fiction
- trueFrench in the United States
- trueFriendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large print books
- trueLiterary fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Master and servant -- Fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- truePicaresque fiction
- trueSocial classes
- trueSpies
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Genre
- Adenture fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large print books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- truePicaresque fiction
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