Jack Maggs
Häftad bok. London : Faber and Faber. 1997.
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'A tour de force,
compulsively readable.'
A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times
'Sensationally bold and brilliant.' Hermione Lee, Independent on Sunday
Peter Carey's novel, set in London in 1837, is a thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar - in this case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms?
'A master of storytelling .••
Vivid, exact, unexpected images and
language match the quick, witty intelligence flickering through this novel, and make it a triumph of ebullient indictment, humane insight and creative generosity. Sunday Times
'Carey, wonderful deviser of gnarled and twisted stories, reinterprets the moral and physical make-up of the Dickensian landscape ... Not simply a pastiche, but a report by hellish half-light on one of the great dreamlands of human obsession.' Peter Porter, Guardian
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780571193776
- Titel
- Jack Maggs
- Författare
- Carey, Peter
- Förlag
- London : Faber and Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 1997
- Språk
- English
