About this Item
SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First Edition/First Printing US. Very Fine condition. Brodart protected. Ships in a box. Seller Inventory # 002596
Bibliographic Details
Title: Jack Maggs
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Of course, rewriting a page-turner from the past offers some major perils, not the least of them being comparisons to the original. Carey, however, more than withstands the test of time, alluding to the formality of Victorian prose without ever bending over backward to duplicate it. In addition, his eye for physical detail--and the ways in which such details open small or large windows onto character--is on par with that of Dickens. Here, for example, he pins down both the body and soul of a household servant: "Miss Mott was lean and sinewy and there was nowhere much for such a violent shiver to hide itself. Consequently it went right up her spine and disappeared inside her little white cap and then, just when it seemed lost, it came out the other side and pulled up the ends of her thin mouth in a grimace." Throw in a wicked mastery of period slang, a subplot about Victorian mesmerism (of which Dickens was, in fact, a practitioner), and an amazing storytelling gift, and you have a novel which meets and exceeds almost any expectation one might bring to it.
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