by Leon Garfield · Nathan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782092041185
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«Black Jack» is the adventure and suspense novel by Leon Garfield, published by Nathan in paperback, in French.
In eighteenth-century London, Bartholomew Dorking is forced to accompany Black Jack, an outlaw who has survived his own hanging. They roam the underworld, a travelling circus and a private asylum, where the young man meets Belle, an enigmatic girl. A novel of suspense and gothic atmosphere with unexpected twists.
Novel originally published in 1968, winner of the Zilveren Griffel award in 1974. The 1979 film adaptation was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Pocket Nathan edition.
Children's and young adult audience (6-9 years according to the publisher), although its gothic atmosphere has also attracted adult readers.
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog and the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen..
