Parrot and Olivier in America

A GREAT RECREATION OF ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE'S FAMOUS JOURNEY. Olivier is an aristocrat born shortly after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an English printer. Their lives intertwine when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save his life from a new revolution, and Parrot follows him as a spy, protector, and antagonist. Through adventures that include love and money, prison and freedom, painting and writing, the two form an unlikely pair. And where better for the unlikely to flourish than the brand-new and glorious democratic experiment, America? In telling the story of this friendship, Peter Carrey explores the American democratic experiment with dazzling inventiveness and a richness of characterization, narrative, and language that only a masterful writer like him could achieve.