Bibliograph

True history of the Kelly gang, Peter Carey

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True history of the Kelly gang, Peter Carey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

True history of the Kelly gang

Oclc number

26898844426835

Responsibility statement

Peter Carey

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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 6.9, 22.0, 49826.

Summary

True History of Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood. In 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said, 'Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla, I would fight up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for years, I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'. By the time of his hanging in 1880 a whole country would seem to agree - and it is a measure of Peter Carey's achievement that he has not only made art from his country's great story but that he persuades us all to understand the true measure of that 'best bloody man'. --Book Jacket

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