True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (deckled edges)

True History of the Kelly Gang

by Peter Carey

University of Queensland Press, 2001, ISBN 0702232637, deckled edges, paperback with wraps

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged.”

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