Jack Maggs / Peter Carey ; translated by Eduardo Chamorro

By:

Carey, Peter, 1943- [author]

Contributor(s):

Chamorro, Eduardo, 1946-2009 [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Series: Modernos y clásicos de Muchnik Editores ; 90Publication details: Barcelona : Muchnik, 2000.Description: 347 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9788476693797

Uniform titles:

Jack Maggs. Spanish.

Subject(s):

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction

LOC classification:

PR9599 .C33J33 2000

Summary: 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 a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation. Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross-section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and romance.

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Book	TBS Barcelona	P-SP CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		B02723

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 a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation.
Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross-section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and romance.

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