by PeterCarey (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0571209874
ISBN 13: 9780571209873
Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 2001 and The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book South East Asia and South Pacific 2001 and The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2001. Shortlisted for Tasmania Pacific Rim Region Prizes: Fiction 2003 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002 and Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 2000.