Parrot and Olivier in America
$16.50 CAD • Used
DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some rippling of front panel of dust jacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 380 pages; "Olivieran improvi...
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DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some rippling of front panel of dust jacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 380 pages; "Olivieran improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocquevilleis the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United Statesostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolutionParrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier."
Product Info
ISBN: 0307592626
ISBN-13: 9780307592620
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2010
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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Country: Canada
