Book Club: Parrot & Olivier in America
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04:00PM - 05:30PM
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The next selection for the Book Club is Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, which was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award and on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It's a feat of imagination and an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is an aristocrat born just after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives are joined when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his neck from one more revolution and Parrot is sent with him as spy, protector, foe, and foil. With the story of their unlikely friendship, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and richness of characterization, story, and language.
If you so desire, feel free to bake or make a snack to share, or bring a bottle of wine or a blend of tea you would like others to try.