True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
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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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True History of the Kelly Gang by 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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571192168 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571192165 |
| Title | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| Author | Peter Carey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2001-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 2001, Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book South East Asia and South Pacific 2001, Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2001, Short-listed for Tasmania Pacific Rim Region Prizes: Fiction 2003, Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002, Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002, Short-listed for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 2000 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |