![]() ![]() Win a worldwide readership for a novel that teems with energy, suspense and the Native land for this triumphant historical recreation, and he will undoubtedly Gang contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel.” “Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos, True History of the Kelly I actually kept reading and kept reading evn though it was longer than I thought I should be." Format of the book is as if Ned kelly kept a diary on scraps of paper. In their final gunfight the settlers loan the outlaws their plowshares to be made into armor like the monitor and the merrimac battleships. "Interesting true story of outlaws in Australia in the 1870s. Building from this historical legend and testing our sympathies, Carey crafts a deeply humanistic piece of historical fiction-a tale of injustice and violence. Brilliantly novelized by Peter Carey, the story of the Kelly Gang unfolds from a series of 13 compassionate letters written, while on the run, by Kelly to his infant daughter. ![]() Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years. As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? His name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. ![]()
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