Jack Maggs

CD Edition

by Peter Carey
narrated by Steven Crossley

Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult

Book Reference: DIR1660
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7656 8

Duration: 13h 30m (approx.) on 12 CDs

Publication Date: April 2008

Synopsis

Peter Carey is a Booker Prize Winner and best selling author. Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the view point of the Australian convict. Jack Maggs was raised and deported as a criminal, and has returned from Australia in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street?

Press Quotes

The Times

“Carey is a novelist distinguished by his reach and scope... The reader looks forward to his novels because one can never know what he might pull off next - only that it will be accomplished with a sure touch and absolute fearlessness.”
 
 
 

Artwork

Jack Maggs

CD Edition