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There’s enough to snag your imagination on, and to spare.� - The Christian Science Monitor “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 “ Parrot and Olivier. It bristles like a hedgehog with all of Carey’s spiky ideas. A rollicking debate about America and its opportunities, its society and class distinctions.� - The Denver Post “Carey is as various, often as brilliant, and always as irreverent as they come.� – The Boston Globe “An exuberant, entertaining, incisive novel, full of attitude and incident.� - Dallas Morning News “Amusing and wise and graceful to a degree that we almost don’t deserve.� -Salon “An energetically intelligent novel. book has an eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality.� –James Wood, The New Yorker “Re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville’s American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating. This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul.� - O, The Oprah Magazine “Delicious.A comic historical picaresque. � – The Washington Post “Gorgeously entertaining and moving. Matchlessly robust.� – The New York Times Book Review “Outrageous and witty.Another feat of acrobatic ventriloquism, joining Carey’s masterpieces, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is a sheer magician with language.� - The Miami Herald “A brass-band burlesque of literature and history.Provokes a reader’s delighted applause.