True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
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.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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.
'Peter Carey has produced some very fine novels before now, but this, I would say, is his finest' Daily Telegraph '[Peter Carey is] without question the pre-eminent literary voice of post-colonial Australia, he loves to take risks.' Guardian 'Contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel.' New York Times Book Review
Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York. He is the author of the highly acclaimed selection of short stories. The Fat Man in History, six novels, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, The Tax Inspector, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs, and a book for children, The Big Bazoohley. Oscar and Lucinda has been made into a film by Gillian Armstrong starring Ralph Fiennes.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571209873 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571209874 |
| Title | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| Author | Peter Carey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2004-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| 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 |