![]() ![]() Winner of The Booker Prize & The Commonwealth Writer' Prize. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. Peter Careys book, presenting what purports to be the True History of the Kelly Gang, has Ned Kelly telling his own story. ![]() Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority. ![]() To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most everyone not in uniform. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. 'True History of Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang, with a cover by Michael Leunig As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
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