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True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

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#307 of 8,085 books · #64 in Historical Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (2001). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

True History of the Kelly Gang won the Booker Prize. The legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9781101908204
Topics
Outlaw life and rebellionColonial AustraliaIdentity and legendFamily and loyaltyClass conflict with authority

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