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We have renewed our fascination with the close spaces of 19 th -century England, and it is with those close spaces, the dim hallways and yellow glooms, that the Australian novelist Peter Carey's Jack Maggs reacquaints us.
Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.
Already a best seller in England and Australia, Maggs marks Carey's second foray into Victorian England.
Maggs ' London is Dickens' London, only darker: a city whose humanity has long since run dry and whose juveniles--the Twists and Dorrits and Chuzzlewits and Maggses--are forced into lives of crime.
Jack Maggs offers many of these Carey staples.