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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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Carey explores the life and times of Australia's most enduring folk legend, Ned Kelly and his gang. Carey, using Ned Kelly himself as the powerful narrator of this novel, written for a daughter he will never see, gives us an emotional life we could never imagine. A novel of the class-ridden society of colonial Victoria in the 1870s.
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- Date Listed:08/12/2023
- Last Edited:08/12/2023
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