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Winner of The Booker Prize & The Commonwealth Writer' Prize. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. 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. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang, with a cover by Michael Leunig As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
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