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True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey’s marvelous imaginative reconstruction of Ned Kelly’s life story. Based partly on historical documents and on the remarkable writing found in Kelly’s Jerilderie letter, the novel closely follows the known facts of a figure now widely regarded as both a heroic opponent of England’s unjust colonial rule and an early precursor to Australian nationalism. Having lost his own father at the age of twelve and knowing what it is like to be raised on "lies and silences," Ned Kelly sets out to write the history of his life for his infant daughter so that she will someday know the truth about him. What follows is an extraordinary narrative of the Kelly family’s struggle to survive in Australia’s unyielding bush country. As dirt-poor Irish immigrants they are looked upon by the English settlers as "a notch beneath the cattle" and face continual police harassment and the threat of eviction from their land. When his father is arrested and subsequently dies, Ned becomes the man of the house and fights fiercely to support and protect his mother and siblings. After becoming an unwilling apprentice to the famous bushranger Harry Power, Ned is drawn increasingly into a life of crime. He fights with his mother’s suitors and the police, and when he shoots the treacherous Constable Fitzgerald in self-defense, Ned is forced to flee into the wild back country. With his younger brother and two loyal friends he outsmarts the police, eludes a massive manhunt, commits crimes of spectacular daring, and falls in love, all the while gaining widespread support from poor oppressed farmers.
True History of the Kelly Gang gives readers an unforgettable portrait of the man behind the myth, the trusted friend and loving son and father who would not sacrifice his integrity to save his life and who planted the seeds of rebellion in the consciousness of a fledgling nation.
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