Ambitious and adventurous, Peter Carey, author of six previous novels and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda, here turns to the second half of the 19th century in his native ...
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A ‘thoroughly white’ novel of national mythmaking: Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang at 25
It’s hard to fathom that 25 years have passed since Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang was published to such acclaim. A glance at the novel’s entry in the AustLit database gives a sense of ...
In “True History of the Kelly Gang,” George MacKay, as the outlaw Ned Kelly, rises up as if from a nightmare, lighted like a demon from the netherworld. MacKay often appears almost naked, his hair ...
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