True History Of The Kelly Gang
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Ned Kelly — bushranger, outlaw, and Australia's most enduring folk hero — narrates his own turbulent life in Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece, True History of the Kelly Gang. Set in the rugged, unforgiving landscape of colonial Victoria in the 1870s, the novel chronicles Kelly's rise from poverty-stricken Irish immigrant roots to his legendary last stand at Glenrowan, all rendered in a raw, breathless prose that mimics the voice of a barely literate man writing the fierce truth of his existence for his unborn daughter. Carey constructs his narrative as a collection of parcels — fragmentary documents that together form a passionate, self-justifying confession — capturing the grinding injustice of class and colonial oppression that shaped Kelly into a symbol of resistance. The novel stands as a towering achievement in postmodern historical fiction, blending meticulous period detail with an invented vernacular voice so authentic it reads as recovered truth. With this work, Carey invites the reader to question where history ends and myth begins — and whether, in Kelly's case, there was ever any difference at all.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Ned Kelly — bushranger, outlaw, and Australia's most enduring folk hero — narrates his own turbulent life in Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece, True History of the Kelly Gang. Set in the rugged, unforgiving landscape of colonial Victoria in the 1870s, the novel chronicles Kelly's rise from poverty-stricken Irish immigrant roots to his legendary last stand at Glenrowan, all rendered in a raw, breathless prose that mimics the voice of a barely literate man writing the fierce truth of his existence for his unborn daughter. Carey constructs his narrative as a collection of parcels — fragmentary documents that together form a passionate, self-justifying confession — capturing the grinding injustice of class and colonial oppression that shaped Kelly into a symbol of resistance. The novel stands as a towering achievement in postmodern historical fiction, blending meticulous period detail with an invented vernacular voice so authentic it reads as recovered truth. With this work, Carey invites the reader to question where history ends and myth begins — and whether, in Kelly's case, there was ever any difference at all.