Jack Maggs A Novel by Carey, Peter - 1999

New York U. S. A.: Vintage International. As New 1999. Softcover. Marfree, tite later prtg;minor corner curl no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 Inches; 357 pages; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt...The reader is willingly drawn along, charmed by the story's details, susceptible to the plot's contrivances, always surprised by the reversals, misunderstandings, coincidences, exaggerations, interlocking narratives and other entertaining devices of vintage Victorian storytelling. As always, Mr. Carey writes with energy and fantastic inventiveness. But he seems more in control here than he has in any of his previous novels. -- The New York Times .