{"product_id":"2026100009480-secondhand-jack-maggs-signed","title":"Jack Maggs (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London, a dangerous man has returned from the far edges of the British Empire — and his arrival will unravel secrets that polite society would sooner keep buried. Jack Maggs is Peter Carey's audacious reimagining of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, chronicling the story of the convict Magwitch through the eyes of the magnetic and menacing Jack Maggs, a man transported to Australia who has illegally returned to England in search of the surrogate son he has funded from afar. Shadowing his every move is Tobias Oates, an ambitious young novelist who, recognising the raw material of a great story, uses mesmerism to unlock the secrets of Maggs's tortured past — exploiting his subject even as he purports to help him.\n\nCarey writes with a ferocious intelligence and a prose style that pulses with period authenticity, constructing a narrative that is simultaneously a gripping thriller, a meditation on colonialism, and a sly commentary on the act of storytelling itself. Jack Maggs won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and stands as one of the defining works of postcolonial fiction, boldly questioning who owns a story and who has the right to tell it. Notably, this copy bears what appears to be the author's own signature on the title page — a detail that adds a remarkable personal dimension to an already extraordinary book. Can Jack Maggs reclaim his identity from the man determined to possess it?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203179749595,"sku":"2026100009480-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e524cd01-f37e-4f99-bde4-ca5fc253912c.png?v=1788144958","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009480-secondhand-jack-maggs-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}