{"product_id":"2026100009246-secondhand-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"True History Of The Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: celebratory edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the red-dust country of colonial Victoria, a bushranger writes furiously against time, determined that his son will one day know the truth — True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning reimagining of Ned Kelly's life, narrated in the outlaw's own raw, urgent, and semi-literate voice. The novel chronicles Kelly's journey from impoverished Irish-Australian childhood, through a world of corrupt troopers, desperate poverty, and fierce mateship, to his fateful last stand at Glenrowan, all rendered with breathtaking authenticity and emotional power.\n\nCarey's masterwork stands as one of the great achievements of Australian literature, constructing an entire vernacular world from Kelly's perspective while interrogating the myths of nationhood, class, and rebellion that the Kelly legend has always embodied. The prose — deliberately ungrammatical, propulsive, and deeply affecting — captures a man shaped by injustice yet consumed by an almost quixotic sense of honour. Drawing on the real Jerilderie Letter that Kelly wrote before his capture, Carey transforms a fragment of history into a searing meditation on identity, loyalty, and the stories we tell to make ourselves real. What emerges is not simply the biography of an outlaw, but a portrait of a nation still deciding what it wants to believe about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269347811547,"sku":"2026100009246-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/67168289-16cf-465f-bd9d-714aba071f1b.png?v=1788999046","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009246-secondhand-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}