CAREY, PETER — Parrot & Olivier in America

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 0307592626. First US Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0307592626. Stated first US edition. Quarter bound in publisher's dark blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Peter Philip Carey AO (born 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unread, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 380, (4) pp. As New in As New dust jacket .