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Parrot and Olivier in America

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In Australian literature: Literature in the 21st century
Carey’s other 21st-century efforts included Parrot and Olivier in America (2009), focusing on a character modeled on 19th-century French social observer Alexis de Tocqueville, and Amnesia (2015), which employs cybercrime as the lens through which to view the Battle of Brisbane (1942), a clash between U.S. soldiers and Australian military…
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Parrot and Olivier in America (2009) is a picaresque work set in the early 19th century. It presents the adventures of two men—one a young French aristocrat (whose portrait is based largely on Alexis de Tocqueville) and the other an Englishman traveling as his servant…
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