“ Parrot and Olivier in America is a delicious, sprockety contraption, a comic historical picaresque…Like several of Carey’s previous novels, such as Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, his book has an eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality…There are few contemporary writers with such a sure sense of narrative pungency and immediacy.” “Gorgeously entertaining and moving…This is a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul.” “ Parrot and Olivier in America grabs its subject and marches down Main Street playing full out, provoking a reader’s delighted applause…Sentence for sentence, Carey’s writing remains matchlessly robust.” “I finished it with unabated enjoyment…The language is vivid, forceful and poetic…There are terrific set pieces…moments Dickensian in their vividness…It’s a dazzling, entertaining novel.”
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