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True History of the Kelly Gang
- Narrateur(s): Gianfranco Negroponte
- Durée: 14 h et 17 min
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Description
Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2001
Ned Kelly's name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. Was he a crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years. Brilliantly novelized by Peter Carey, the story of the Kelly Gang unfolds from a series of 13 compassionate letters written, while on the run, by Kelly to his infant daughter. Building from this historical legend and testing our sympathies, Carey crafts a deeply humanistic piece of historical fiction, a tale of injustice and violence.
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"Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this." ( School Library Journal)
"Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos...contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- charles northey
- 2024-02-07
This is an overall tour de force!
The idea of an (mostly) invented history so masterfully told and narrated gives this work an authenticity that tricks you into thinking it’s all real. Only afterwards do you realize that Carey tells us things that could only be known if you were there, and indeed it feels like you were.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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Histoire1 out of 5 stars
- missrennyp
- 2020-04-25
meh
imagine a national hero in your country that you know all about, who is famous, whose stories are legendary. now imagine reading about a 3 hero of some other nation, that you've never heard of and know nothing about. pretty much what I did. nothing wrong with the story, or writing...I just didn't grow up with Ned Kelly therefore I did not care.
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