Showing True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-02-03 Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.In a dazzling act of ventriloquism. Peter Carey gives the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly a voice so wild. passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan. as Oedipus. as horse thief. farmer. bushranger. reformer. bank-robber. police-killer and . finally. as his countrys beloved Robin Hood.In 1878 Francis Harty. a poor farmer. said. Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla. I would fight up to my kn...