Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - First American Edition - 1998 - from Abandoned Books and Biblio.com

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Book summary

In 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 Maggs

by Carey, Peter

First American Edition

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Book desription: Alfred Knopf, 1998. White, clean, crisp and bright First Edition, First Printing (1st Edition, 1st Printing) with dustjacket. Bookplate to flypage, a very SHARP UNREAD COPY! All of our books are hand selected and are as described. Mylar protective sleeves are available. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Bookseller: Abandoned Books (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 098491
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: Near Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679440089
ISBN 13: 9780679440086
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Date published: 1998
Pages: 306
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Keywords: CRIME CRIMINALS FICTION LONDON ENGLAND HISTORICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MAGWITCH ABEL FICTITIOUS CHARACTER

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