Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pen mark on top foredge. Light foxing to endpages. Large format paperback.

Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis.

But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the centre, a dark, looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling.