Jack Maggs (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
A bold and inventive work of postcolonial literary fiction, Jack Maggs reimagines the world of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations through the eyes of its own convict protagonist, transplanting the story to the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London. Peter Carey chronicles the return of Jack Maggs, a man transported to Australia for his crimes who has secretly made his fortune and now slips back into England — illegally — driven by a fierce, obsessive love for the young gentleman he once supported from afar. The novel unfolds with rich suspense as Maggs becomes entangled with Tobias Oates, an ambitious young writer who uses mesmerism to extract the convict's darkest memories, all while exploiting them for his own literary gain. Carey's prose is atmospheric and morally charged, drawing sharp parallels between the act of storytelling and the exercise of power, between the colonizer's narrative and the colonized man's truth. Jack Maggs stands as a masterful reclamation of a silenced voice, arguing that the stories a society chooses to tell — and those it suppresses — define its very character.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1998, Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
A bold and inventive work of postcolonial literary fiction, Jack Maggs reimagines the world of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations through the eyes of its own convict protagonist, transplanting the story to the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London. Peter Carey chronicles the return of Jack Maggs, a man transported to Australia for his crimes who has secretly made his fortune and now slips back into England — illegally — driven by a fierce, obsessive love for the young gentleman he once supported from afar. The novel unfolds with rich suspense as Maggs becomes entangled with Tobias Oates, an ambitious young writer who uses mesmerism to extract the convict's darkest memories, all while exploiting them for his own literary gain. Carey's prose is atmospheric and morally charged, drawing sharp parallels between the act of storytelling and the exercise of power, between the colonizer's narrative and the colonized man's truth. Jack Maggs stands as a masterful reclamation of a silenced voice, arguing that the stories a society chooses to tell — and those it suppresses — define its very character.