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True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

by PeterCarey (Author)

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Synopsis

'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0571270158
ISBN 13: 9780571270156
Book Overview: True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's acclaimed Booker Prize-winning historical adventure about the life of Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly.

Media Reviews
A spectacular feat of imagination. - The Boston Globe
Vastly entertaining... . Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James. - The New York Times

The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high. - John Updike, The New Yorker
Carey succeeds in creating an account that not only feels authentic but also passes as a serious novel and solid, old-fashioned ' entertainment.' A big, meaty novel, blending Dickens and Cormac McCarthy with a distinctly
Australian strain of melancholy. - San Francisco Chronicle

Abravura performance... . Rewards the persistent reader with a powerful emotional experience. - The Wall Street Journal
Carey' s pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva. - Los Angeles Times

The power and charm of [this book] arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly... . - Time

So adroit that you never doubt it' s Kelly' s own words you' re reading in the headlong, action-packed story. - Newsweek

This novel is worth our best attention. - The Washington Post Book World
Anavalanche of a novel... . Cary has raised a national legend to the level of an international myth. - Christian Science Monitor
Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos . . . contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel. - The New York Times Book Review
The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high. - John Updike, The New Yorker

Carey' s pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva. - Los Angeles Times

A spectacular feat of imagination. - The Boston Globe
Vastly entertaining.... Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James. - The New York Times

The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high. -John Updike, The New Yorker
Carey succeeds in creating an account that not only feels authentic but also passes as a serious novel and solid, old-fashioned 'entertainment.' A big, meaty novel, blending Dickens and Cormac McCarthy with a distinctly
Australian strain of melancholy. - San Francisco Chronicle

Abravura performance.... Rewards the persistent reader with a powerful emotional experience. - The Wall Street Journal
Carey's pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva. - Los Angeles Times

The power and charm of [this book] arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly.... - Time

So adroit that you never doubt it's Kelly's own words you're reading in the headlong, action-packed story. - Newsweek

This novel is worth our best attention. - The Washington Post Book World
An avalanche of a novel.... Cary has raised a national legend to the level of an international myth. - Christian Science Monitor
Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos . . . contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel. - TheNew York Times Book Review
The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high. -John Updike, The New Yorker

Carey's pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva. - Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years. www.petercareybooks.com