True History Of The Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: quarter leather cream papered boards - in mylar. Binding remains tight. Clean and tidy copy.
From the sun-scorched plains of colonial Victoria, the voice of Australia's most infamous outlaw roars back to life with startling intimacy and raw, defiant power. True History of the Kelly Gang chronicles the life of Ned Kelly through a series of fictional autobiographical parcels addressed to the daughter he never knew, recounting his hardscrabble childhood in poverty, the injustices heaped upon his Irish immigrant family by a corrupt colonial police force, and his violent, legendary rise as a bushranger who became a symbol of working-class resistance against an oppressive British establishment. Peter Carey masterfully adopts the voice of Kelly himself — unschooled, passionate, and fiercely proud — crafting prose that is breathlessly urgent and grammatically raw, mirroring the barely literate hand of a man writing against time and certain death. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2001, the novel stands as a towering achievement in postcolonial literature, dissecting themes of identity, myth-making, class struggle, and the very nature of truth itself. Carey dares the reader to question where history ends and legend begins — and whether, in Kelly's Australia, there was ever any difference at all.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: quarter leather cream papered boards - in mylar. Binding remains tight. Clean and tidy copy.
From the sun-scorched plains of colonial Victoria, the voice of Australia's most infamous outlaw roars back to life with startling intimacy and raw, defiant power. True History of the Kelly Gang chronicles the life of Ned Kelly through a series of fictional autobiographical parcels addressed to the daughter he never knew, recounting his hardscrabble childhood in poverty, the injustices heaped upon his Irish immigrant family by a corrupt colonial police force, and his violent, legendary rise as a bushranger who became a symbol of working-class resistance against an oppressive British establishment. Peter Carey masterfully adopts the voice of Kelly himself — unschooled, passionate, and fiercely proud — crafting prose that is breathlessly urgent and grammatically raw, mirroring the barely literate hand of a man writing against time and certain death. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2001, the novel stands as a towering achievement in postcolonial literature, dissecting themes of identity, myth-making, class struggle, and the very nature of truth itself. Carey dares the reader to question where history ends and legend begins — and whether, in Kelly's Australia, there was ever any difference at all.