The language is vivid, forceful and poetic.” - The Guardian (London) Peter Carey’s celebration of his marvelous discovery of how to write about-this time around-our own past.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Carey braids his story carefully, lovingly.At its heart, Parrot and Olivier in America is a western the simplest story in history, sculpted down to a twinkle in a philosopher’s eye: Man’s search for freedom.” – Los Angeles Times There’s enough to snag your imagination on, and to spare.” - The Christian Science Monitor It bristles like a hedgehog with all of Carey’s spiky ideas. “Amusing and wise and graceful to a degree that we almost don’t deserve.” -Salon “An exuberant, entertaining, incisive novel, full of attitude and incident.” - Dallas Morning News “Carey is as various, often as brilliant, and always as irreverent as they come.” – The Boston Globe A rollicking debate about America and its opportunities, its society and class distinctions.” - The Denver Post “Re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville’s American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating. book has an eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality.” –James Wood, The New Yorker “Delicious.A comic historical picaresque. This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul.” - O, The Oprah Magazine
“Outrageous and witty.Another feat of acrobatic ventriloquism, joining Carey’s masterpieces, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang.” – The Washington Post Matchlessly robust.” – The New York Times Book Review “A brass-band burlesque of literature and history.Provokes a reader’s delighted applause.
He is a sheer magician with language.” - The Miami Herald
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