True history of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
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"True History of 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.".
"In 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said, 'Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla, I would fight up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for years, I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'.".
"By the time of his hanging in 1880 a whole country would seem to agree - and it is a measure of Peter Carey's achievement that he has not only made art from his country's great story but that he persuades us all to understand the true measure of that 'best bloody man'."--BOOK JACKET.
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True History of the Kelly Gang
August 5, 2004, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber
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True history of the Kelly gang
2002, Howes
in English
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1841975443 9781841975443
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True history of the Kelly Gang
2002, Vintage Canada
in English
- Vintage Canada ed.
0679311270 9780679311270
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True history of the Kelly Gang
2002, Vintage Books
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0375724672 9780375724671
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True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
December 4, 2001, Vintage
in English
0375724672 9780375724671
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True history of the Kelly gang
2000, Faber and Faber, Faber And Faber, Faber & Faber
in English
0571192165 9780571192168
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"I LOST MY OWN FATHER AT 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."
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