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26 ott 2009 · Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money ...
"Parrot and Olivier in America is a tour de force, a wonderfully dizzying succession of adventures and vivid, at times caricatured, characters executed with great panache. Telling this intricate story is shared by Olivier and Parrot in alternate chapters, a clumsy device in some hands but highly successful in Carey's."
Parrot e Olivier in America è un libro di Peter Carey pubblicato da Feltrinelli nella collana I narratori: acquista su IBS a 21.85€!
11 mag 2010 · Parrot and Olivier in America isn't entirely comic. Scenes of the two with their respective love interests are realistic and poignant, and Carey, who has lived in the United States for 20 years, ...
All'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo, Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Garmont, il miope e asmatico virgulto di un'antica stirpe nobiliare francese spodestata dalla Rivoluzione, viene spedito in un'America appena uscita da un'altra rivoluzione con il pretesto di studiare il sistema penitenziario di quel paese, ma in realtà per risparmiargli la fine del nonno, che ha lasciato la testa sotto ...
30 gen 2010 · W hile enjoying Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, I found myself wondering from time to time what it was about.I finished it with unabated enjoyment, still wondering. I could say that ...
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