Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998
Fantasia
By Gabriele Annan
Jack Maggs
by Peter Carey
Knopf, 306 pp., $24.00
Oscar and Lucinda
a film directed by Gillian Armstrong
It is six PM on an April night in 1837 when the Dover coach pulls in at the Golden Ox in London. Gas-lit streets, cobblestones, gin palaces, child beggars: a Dickensian scene. And Dickens himself is about to appear under the name of Tobias Oates. Toby is still in his middle twenties, but already famous as a writer and journalist. He is fascinated by low life, by 'Characters'; and 'the death of children had always had a profound effect on him,' especially if they were poor children, as he himself had been.
Review, 1609 words
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