- Taschenbuch: 36 Seiten
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0571193773
- ISBN-13: 978-0571193776
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tour de forte
compulsively readable.'
`Sensationally bold and brilliant.' Hermione Lee, Independent on Sunday
Peter Carey's novel, set in London in 1837, is a thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want aller all diese years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar - in this case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms?
`A master of storytelling . . . Vivid, exact, unexpected images and language match the quick, witty intelligente flickering through this novel, and make it a triumph of ebullient indictment, humane insight and creative generosity.' Sunday Times
Carey, wonderful deviser of gnarled and twisted stories, reinterprets the moral and physical make-up of the Dickensian landscape . . . Not simply a pastiche, but a report by hellish half-light on one of the great dreamlands of human obsession.' Peter Porter, Guardian
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- Verlag:
- Faber and Faber Ltd.; Auflage: New edition (8. Juni 1998)
- (Englisch) Taschenbuch
- Artikelnummer:
- B00044488
- Gewicht:
- 400 gr