OL25686036W Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 342 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220324135940 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 524 Scandate 20220318214228 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780571270170 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:jackmaggs0000care_p6o0:lcpdf:8da3734b-0464-4445-9fa2-517180c3983f Jack Maggs: A Novel Peter Carey Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 18, 2007- Fiction- 368 pages 15Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. At the time he was balancing his writing. His first novel, Bliss, was published in 1982.

Collectible.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:39:53 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40407813 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier His first two books, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), were short story collections. He is the author of five previous novels and a collection of stories.' - Publisher. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia, in 1943, Peter Carey lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the center is Jack Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling.

From this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial-each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. Returning 'home' under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements-and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes-and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. He might not yet know where he was, or what he knew. W hen he entered the soul of Jack Maggs, it was as if he had entered the guts of a huge and haunted engine.

Thus Maggs’ inner and outer stories entwine with the novelist’s own. 'From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London-a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion. For the writer, Tobias Oates, he is a case study of the criminal mind and extraordinary raw material for a novel. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication.

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