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 row 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 a finalist 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.
