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An edition of True history of the Kelly gang (2000)

True History of the Kelly Gang

New Ed edition
  • 3.5 (4 ratings) ·
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  • 11 Have read

"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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432

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Cover of: True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
August 5, 2004, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: True history of the Kelly Gang
True history of the Kelly Gang
2002, Vintage Canada
in English - Vintage Canada ed.
Cover of: True history of the Kelly Gang
True history of the Kelly Gang
2002, Vintage Books
in English - First Vintage international ed.
Cover of: True history of the Kelly gang
True history of the Kelly gang
2002, Howes
in English - Large print edition.
Cover of: True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
December 4, 2001, Vintage
in English
Cover of: True history of the Kelly gang
True history of the Kelly gang
2000, Faber and Faber, Faber And Faber, Faber & Faber
in English

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The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
7.6 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches
Weight
9.1 ounces

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Open Library
OL7857759M
ISBN 10
0571209874
ISBN 13
9780571209873
Library Thing
25317
Goodreads
110091

First Sentence

"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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