by Peter Carey · Faber Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571193776
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«Jack Maggs» is a historical novel by Peter Carey, published by Faber Paperbacks in paperback (336 pages, in English).
London, 1837. Jack Maggs, transported to Australia as a criminal, returns in secret after years of exile. His interest in a terraced house on Great Queen Street brings him into contact with Tobias Oates, a writer and amateur hypnotist. Between mesmerism and dangerous pacts, the novel is a homage to Victorian narrative.
Jack Maggs won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative seeking a story set in Victorian London.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
