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Book summaryIn Peter Carey's literary fantasy, one of Dickens's characters (Magwitch in GREAT EXPECTATIONS) is a real person, and tries to murder the novelist for caricaturing and sentimentalizing him in the novel. Winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Media reviews"'Jack Maggs' is well written. Carey's sentences are an elaborate pastiche of nineteen-century decorum laced with modern wit. There is a skilful deployment throughout of underworld slang of the time....I don't want to leave the impression that 'Jack Maggs' is just a literary pleasure....Anyone who cares at all for fiction should read it." |
JACK MAGGSby Carey, PeterFourth Printing
Book description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Owner name.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 306 pages .
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