True History of the Kelly Gang (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Carey
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1855-1880
- Setting: Australia
- Principal Characters: Ned Kelly, Ellen Kelly, John Kelly, Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne, Steve Hart, Harry Power, Mary Hearn
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Fathers, Outlaws, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia
Although Peter Carey resettled in New York in the 1980’s, he has not lost his connection with the land of his birth. He has established through his fiction a bold and penetrating examination of what it means to be an Australian. Carey burst upon the literary landscape in 1974 with the publication of his collection of stories The Fat Man in History. He published his first novel, Bliss, in 1981. It was in his second novel, Illywhacker, that Carey boldly demonstrated that he could be a provocative and inventive novelist of the first order. The novel spanned more than...
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