True History of the Kelly Gang.

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"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.

First Sentence

I LOST MY OWN FATHER AT 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.

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Other Editions

• True History of the Kelly Gang.Faber & Faber2001-01-01
• True history of the Kelly gangKnopf2000-01-01
• the true history of the kelly ganguniversity of queensland press2000-01-01
• True history of the Kelly gangUniversity of Queensland Press2000-01-01
• True history of the Kelly gangFaber and Faber2000-01-01
• True history of the Kelly gangUniversity of Queensland Press2001-01-01