The True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel – Peter Carey

Condition : Good.
QPD, 2000, Large-format Paperback – Fiction – 352pp. Light water-marks.

Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.

As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he’s a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.