It’s lyrical and hard-edged at the same time, constantly inventive, pell-mell in its storytelling, and, best of all, the voice Peter Carey invents for Ned Kelly is nothing less than mint-fresh original. “ True History of the Kelly Gang is a true wonder. “A novel that is by turns rambunctious and tender, teeming with life and incident, and whose plainspoken surfaces conceal a strange and prismatic book, richly imagined, ambivalent and passionate.” “The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high.” Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James.” The lilts and dips of the voice carry everything from pity to poignancy, from rage to defiance, in a strange poetic simplicity.” “Kelly’s voice in Carey’s hands, becomes hypnotic. “Lean, pared down for speed, and wholly convincing not only as an outback adventure but also as a psychological and historical drama…A spectacular feat of imagination.”
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