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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is True History of the Kelly Gang about?
Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’.True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in Ned Kelly’s voice. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as an orphan, Oedipus, horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank robber, police killer and finally, his country’s beloved Robin Hood. By the time of his hanging in 1880, a whole country would seem to agree that he was ‘the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla’."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." - Publisher WeeklyPeter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He has also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary
Who reads True History of the Kelly Gang?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299021648
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (93 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14