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Title: True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey
Narrator: Gianfranco Negroponte
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-04
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 338 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2001
Ned Kelly's name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. Was he a crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years. Brilliantly novelized by Peter Carey, the story of the Kelly Gang unfolds from a series of 13 compassionate letters written, while on the run, by Kelly to his infant daughter. Building from this historical legend and testing our sympathies, Carey crafts a deeply humanistic piece of historical fiction, a tale of injustice and violence.
Critic Reviews:
"No reader will be left unmoved by this dramatic tale....A novel that teems with energy, suspense and the true story of a memorable protagonist." (
Publishers Weekly) "Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this." (
School Library Journal) "Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos...contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel." (
The New York Times Book Review)
