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True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

This story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and as his country's Robin Hood.
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In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood.

Product Description

Title - True History of the Kelly Gang

Edition -

Author - Peter Carey

ISBN 13 - 9780571209873

Imprint - Faber & Faber

Publisher - Faber & Faber

Date Published - 05/08/2004

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 127 x 197 x mm

Weight - 275 g

Languages - English