Jack Maggs: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1998, Best Book - Softcover

Carey, Peter

 
9780571193776: Jack Maggs: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1998, Best Book
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571193773 ISBN 13: 9780571193776
Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar - in this case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? In this hugely engaging novel one of the finest of contemporary writers pays homage to his Victorian forebears. As Peter Carey's characters become embroiled in each other's furtive desires, and increasingly fall under one another's spell, their thirst for love exacts a terrible, unexpected cost.

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Twice winner of the Booker Prize, Peter Carey's most recent novel Parrot and Olivier in America was described by the New Yorker as 'a comic masterpiece' and by the Sunday Times as 'an exhilarating tour-de-force'. It was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and a National Book Award in 2010.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber, London
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571193773
ISBN 13 
9780571193776
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Anzahl der Seiten
327
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