Mint condition.Faber and Faber,2010.First UK edition-first printing(4 6 8 10 9 7 5).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small scratches on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w drawings.The book is new.452pp.Price un-clipped.Heavy book.A collectable first edition. This is another paragraph Product Description: Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart in love and politics, prisons and the world of art Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.