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Title:True History of the Kelly Gang
Price:AUD$9.95 (about USD$6.50)
Category:Fiction
ISBN:9780702232367
Item ID:P002-7656
Quantity:1
Publisher:Univ of Qld Press, Brisbane, 2002
Edition:Reprint
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Good
Univ of Qld Press, 2002, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, Reprint

Size: Octavo (standard book size). 401 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. 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'. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 070223236x. ISBN/EAN: 9780702232367. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7656.
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