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True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey
Narrated by: Gianfranco Negroponte
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Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw.

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 15, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.

Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature, and yet they could only have grown from our soil.

©2000 Peter Carey (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Action & Adventure Historical Fiction Fiction
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Incredible from start to finish, this is my favourite audio book yet. The narrator more than manages to do this poetic and stunningly captivating book justice.

Perfection

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This is literature at its best. Wonderful narration and an absolutely gripping Australian story. Carey is so good at capturing character and the Australian ethos, with such limited, but at time beautiful, prose.

Incredible

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Great book, cleverly written and crafted. Read well. I wonder if it would have been for an Irish Australian narrator. I do love that accent, and seems to be Carey's intent re voice.

Fantastic book

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I really enjoyed listening to this well written account of the Kelly Gang story. I felt drawn back into that Aussie landscape. The narration was excellent too.

Must Read

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Well worth the listening time.A great story that's difficult to put down. well written and well read.

A great story that's difficult to put down.

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