Parrot and Olivier in America

What is the author's style in Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey?

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The point of view of "Parrot & Olivier in America" is the first person, It is limited in view and reliable. Parrot and Olivier alternate in narrating the story and each of them tells the story from his own perspective. Their reliability is assumed as neither narrator is ever proven to lie. The switch back and forth between the two narrators from a first-person viewpoint is very important to the novel as it focuses largely on comparing the views of these two characters, an aristocrat and a servant, throughout their experiences in America.