True History of the Kelly Gang

This book is a wonder. It's interesting that it can be so effective when its artifice is so apparent. No one really writes like this. No one really uses this bizarre amalgam of heightened vocabulary, slang, and understatement; just to read a few pages is proof enough of that. The technique is mostly......more

Well here I am being a bad person again, I try to be good and I really do like to like things but you all are probably by now getting the strong idea that really I like to dislike things, such as Booker Prize winners and movies with Scarlet Johanssssssen in them. They call me Mr Grumpy, baby, cause......more

Ned Kelly is a man of Australian folklore. Peter Carey gives Kelly a voice beyond the grave in this novel—a voice for his then infant daughter, whom he would never meet. This plot device, unfortunately, is not based on fact, yet it is a useful method to reimagine Kelly's thoughts as he grew up to be......more

lmao i definitely didn't read the last 100 pages of this......more

This fascinating novel from Man Booker prize winner Peter Carey explores the story of the deadly Kelly Gang from the perspective of one of the Kellys. The Kelly gang has an interesting role in Australian history as a band of renegades that were treated like shit by society and forced (or not dependi......more