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A signed first UK edition, first impression of Peter Carey's Booker Prize novel. This signed first UK edition, first impression, of celebrated Australian novelist Peter Carey's 'Parrot and Olivier in America' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010. The novel is an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, following a French aristocrat and his English servant as they set sail for the New World to save their necks from another revolution. Peter Carey is a highly acclaimed Australian writer, frequently cited as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. With unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. A book dazzling with wit and inventiveness, Carey's 'Parrot and Olivier in America' is a novel of adventure, love, politics and prisons. In the publisher's original cloth hardback binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. The dustwrapper is very smart, with only some very minor shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, and some facsimile spotting to the pictures of the covers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
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