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Jack Maggs Author: 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 ... more »
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Peter Carey turns into Charles Dickens in this very entertaining book. A good introduction to the author, whose other works have stylistic and plot artifices that might put off readers who were not comfortable with his writing. This books rolls along, misunderstanding piling upon misunderstanding, to a twisted and climatic ending
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