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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.
Already a best seller in England and Australia, Maggs marks Carey's second foray into Victorian England.
Book -- Jack Maggs: A Novel , by Peter Carey;
Both men have protégés: Maggs' is Henry Phipps, a much younger man who we think may be his son.
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.
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