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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of aContinue
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bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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Pooka
According to its dust-jacket, Jack Maggs is ‘by the author of Oscar and Lucinda’. It is in some respects unlike that novel, being shorter, darker and less furiously though still adequately inventive. Its economy may shock some folk, for Peter Carey i ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 368 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0679760377
- ISBN-13: 9780679760375
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Feb 22, 1999
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780679760375 | Paperback | $14.95 | $10.76 | bn.com |
| $14.95 | $11.25 | The Book Depository | ||
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MarkPopham 
Jack Maggs By Peter Carey
The year is 1837. The streets and back alleys of London teem with squalid poverty. Jack Maggs, the title character of Peter Carey's arresting new novel, has returned furtively to England, from the penal colony in Australia to which he has been deport ... (read full critics)