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Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Honor FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s newest accomplishment of creativity is definitely an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny story set mainly in nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation about the existence of Alexis de Tocqueville—is an aristocrat created soon after the French Revolution. Bird may be the motherless child of an itinerant Language engraver. When Olivier sets sail for the Brand New World to truly save his neck in one more Bird and innovation is delivered with him as traveler, guard, foil, and enemy their lifestyles are registered. With the story of the unlikely friendship, Peter Carey examines the experience of National democracy with the wealth and originality of characterization, vocabulary, and story that people came to anticipate out of this outstanding author.