True History of the Kelly Gang - Brossura

Peter Carey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571209874 ISBN 13: 9780571209873

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2004

Riassunto

'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.' In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives the Australian outlaw 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. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood. In 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said, 'Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla, I would fight up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for years, I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'. By the time of his hanging in 1880 a whole country would seem to agree - and it is a measure of Peter Carey's achievement that he has not only made art from his country's great story but that he persuades us all to understand the true measure of that 'best bloody man'.

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Recensione:

'Peter Carey has produced some very fine novels before now, but this, I would say, is his finest.' --Daily Telegraph

'Contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel.' --New York Times Book Review

'[Peter Carey is] without question the pre-eminent literary voice of post-colonial Australia, he loves to take risks.' --Guardian

Descrizione del libro:

Winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571209874
• ISBN 13: 9780571209873
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432