- Fiction, Male friendship, Aristocracy (Social class), Master and servant
From the two-time Booker Prize--winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution.
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- Author
- Peter Carey
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Canada, Fischer S. Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307476012
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Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for *Oscar and Lucinda,* and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for *True History of the Kelly Gang.* He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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