True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Taste attributes: historicalwesterncrimebiographyfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricatelinearenclosedemotive & stirringinjustice/tragedy/vengeanceunderdog triumphssocial commentary
Boxlist takeA grounded, weighty historical novel: emotional and small-scale. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
"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.".
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- Peter Carey
- Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 384
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