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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Peter Carey |
| Narrator: |
Gianfranco Negroponte |
| Fiction Genre: |
Juvenile Fiction |
| Awards: |
2001 The Man Booker Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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New York Times: "In a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism, the Australian-born novelist Peter Carey invites the outlaw Ned Kelly to tell his story. He summons the rollicking, unschooled, hugely colorful voice of Australia's best-known underdog for a bravura book-length performance. Writing...convincingly in Ned's argot..., [Carey] invests Ned's account with all the makings of a swaggering adventure tale as well as a classic Western tragedy....[A] seamlessly imagined coming-of-age story set in wild country and wilder times. Though Ned Kelly died in 1880..., he could not be more furiously alive." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 368
Publisher: Random House Inc (December 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.7 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375724671 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
I lost my own father at 12 yr. 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. |
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<b>Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize<br><br></b>Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of <i>Oscar and Lucinda</i> and <i>Jack Maggs</i>. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century—a Great American Novel.<br><br>This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and, ultimately, a cold-blooded murderer; to most other Australians, he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents.<br><br>With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most every |
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