True History Of The Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
Edition: Celebratory Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards in very good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
Winner of the Booker Prize, True History of the Kelly Gang is a bold work of historical fiction that chronicles the life of Ned Kelly, Australia's most legendary outlaw, through a series of fictional autobiographical letters written to his daughter. Peter Carey constructs a raw, urgent, and deeply human voice for Kelly — a poor Irish-Australian bushranger who rises against the brutal injustices of colonial Victoria in the late nineteenth century — presenting his story not as myth, but as a desperate act of self-definition. The novel's prose is deliberately unpunctuated and grammatically unruly, mirroring the voice of an uneducated man determined to set the record straight against a corrupt police force and a society rigged against the poor. Carey masterfully blurs the line between history and legend, illustrating how power shapes narrative and how the marginalized must fight — sometimes violently — to reclaim their own truth. Fierce, lyrical, and profoundly moving, it stands as one of the great works of Australian literature.
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Edition: Celebratory Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards in very good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
Winner of the Booker Prize, True History of the Kelly Gang is a bold work of historical fiction that chronicles the life of Ned Kelly, Australia's most legendary outlaw, through a series of fictional autobiographical letters written to his daughter. Peter Carey constructs a raw, urgent, and deeply human voice for Kelly — a poor Irish-Australian bushranger who rises against the brutal injustices of colonial Victoria in the late nineteenth century — presenting his story not as myth, but as a desperate act of self-definition. The novel's prose is deliberately unpunctuated and grammatically unruly, mirroring the voice of an uneducated man determined to set the record straight against a corrupt police force and a society rigged against the poor. Carey masterfully blurs the line between history and legend, illustrating how power shapes narrative and how the marginalized must fight — sometimes violently — to reclaim their own truth. Fierce, lyrical, and profoundly moving, it stands as one of the great works of Australian literature.
