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Author Name: Carey, Peter
Title: True History of the Kelly Gang
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated 2001
ISBN Number: 0-375-41084-8 / 9780375410840
Seller ID: 304-4172
Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Orange and black paper-covered boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Map-endpapers. 352pps. There is a mild bump to the heel of the spine and a previous owner's name is neatly penned in the upper corner of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text, itself, is immaculate; no reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize.
"...Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations. 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 a patriot persecuted by 'English' landlords and their agents..."
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CRIME CRIMINALS FICTION AUSTRALIA HISTORICAL NED KELLY LITERATURE 1800S IRISH IMMIGRANTS PETER CAREY TRUE HISTORY OF THE GANG FIRST EDITIONS
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