Parrot and Olivier in America

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Two-time winner of the Booker Prize, Peter Carey, discusses his latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America. It tells the story of an unlikely friendship between Olivier, the traumatized child of aristocrats who survived the French Revolution, and Parrot, the son of an English printer, who travel to America to explore the experiment of American democracy in the 19th century.

Event: Peter Carey will be in conversation with Edmund White and Claire Messud
Tuesday, April 20, at 7:00 pm
New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium, Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets
$25 General Admission; tickets and information here.

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