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True History of the Kelly Gang

First UK edition of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey
First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 352, [6]. Brown paper-covered boards, lettered in yellow to spine; beige endpapers.
Lacks loosely inserted "Ned Kelly's Australia" map.
Author's seventh novel. Winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2001 Booker Prize. "Such is life," (Ned Kelly's famous last words). A fictional re-imagining, in epistolary form, of the short, brutish life of Australia's famous outlaw, hanged by the Colonial Authorities in 1880, and inspired by the Jerilderie Letter.
Since his death, Ned Kelly has entered Australian folklore, the language, and continues to be the subject of a large number of books and several movies, including the world's first feature-length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906). The distinctive homemade armour he wore for his final, ill-fated stand against the Victorian Police Force was the subject of an emblematic series of paintings by Sidney Nolan.
"Carey's second Booker winner is an irresistible tour de force of literary ventriloquism: the supposed autobiography of 19th-century Australian outlaw and 'wild colonial boy' Ned Kelly, inspired by a fragment of Kelly's own prose and written as a glorious rush of semi-punctuated vernacular storytelling. Mythic and tender by turns, these are tall tales from a lost frontier." –The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, The Guardian
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
2001
ISBN
0571192165
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
paper-covered boards
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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ref.L7H 398