True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
0375724672
9780375724671
Softcover, Paperback, 368pp, Fiction
Vintage International, 2002
Condition: used, trade-size softcover book, good condition with light edgewear, a very small tear at the top of the spine and a small diagonal crease at the top left of the back cover. The front cover has a slight curl and does not lay flat. There is no spine damage and the pages are tight and clean. The picture is a scan of the actual book you will receive.
Synopsis: In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.
