Dec 16, 2009

True History of the Kelly Gang | True History of the Kelly Gang

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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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True History of the Kelly Gang | True History of the Kelly Gang

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