![]() And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the centre, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling.This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power struggle, a double love story, a quest story, and a story of trickery and disguise. Jack Maggs: A Novel (Vintage International) (English Edition) eBook : Carey, Peter:. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. ![]() Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation. In Jack Maggs, Peter Carey has written a twentieth-century, post-colonial Dickens novel, in an imaginative and audacious act of appropriation. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. This discovery results in Jack’s anxiety growing, and an increase of gothic terminology, which, heightens the reader’s perception of it. The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar And Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery.The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. In the beginning of the novel his past is hidden, slowly though, it is revealed he is a convicted criminal who had previously been transported to Australia. ![]()
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