Winner of The Booker Prize & The Commonwealth Writer' Prize. For Peter Carey, an expat novelist settled in New York, True History of the Kelly Gang, which is set in north-east Victoria, in and around small towns like Mansfield, Benalla, Wangaratta and. 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. 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. True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Careys acclaimed Booker Prize-winning historical adventure about the life of Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. 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 National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia.True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey Book Bib IDÄ«ook, Online, Online - Google Books An underclass-avenging, frontier-outlaw folk hero to some, a psychopathic killer to others, Kelly grew up poor and Irish in a country that valued neither quality, and he died famous at 26 after.
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