True history of the Kelly gang
Carey, Peter, 1943-2011
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Total copies: 2
Told in the form of a journal justifying Ned Kelly to the daughter he would never meet, this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of the most popular novelists at work today. '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.
Main title:
True history of the Kelly gang / Peter Carey.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2011.
Collation:
432 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Brisbane, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2000; London: Faber, 2001.
Awards:
Booker Prize 2001
ISBN:
9780571270156 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
LC class:
PR9619.3.C36
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
349180