True history of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave.

True History of the Kelly Gang  is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelley as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood.