Jack Maggs
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679440089
- ISBN 13
- 9780679440086
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 306 pages. The time, the 1830s. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes--and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements--and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind. From this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial--each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the center is Jack Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling. .
Synopsis
Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Peter Carey.
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 603933
- Title
- Jack Maggs
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679440089
- ISBN 13
- 9780679440086
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- FICTION, LITERARY, HISTORICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
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