Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements-and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind.įrom this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial-each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes-and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. "Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."įrom the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London-a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion.
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