Peter Carey 43326 - Jack Maggs
| Schrijver: | Peter Carey 43326 |
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| Titel: | Jack Maggs |
| ISBN: | 0679440089 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1998, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 306p |
| Prijs: | € 11,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London--a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion.\nThe 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.\nFrom 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.
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