Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998
Author(s): Peter Carey
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. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. 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. Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the centre, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling.
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- : Random House Australia
- : Vintage (Australia)
- : 0.322
- : 01 December 2005
- : 20.00 cmmm X 13.20 cmmm X 3.10 cmmm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 463
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Peter Carey