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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: True History of the Kelly Gang (MP3)
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Gianfranco Negroponte
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 13 hours 32 minutes
MP3 size:: 586 MB
Published:: March 01 2020
Available Date:: March 01 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655656609
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Winner The Man Booker Prize 2001
Winner The Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2001
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001
Winner The Age Book of the Year Award 2001

Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw.

As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semi-literate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he’s a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at 15, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.

'By turns rambunctious and tender, teeming with life and incident ... richly imagined, ambivalent and passionate.'
The Bulletin

'Vastly entertaining ... Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James.'
The New York Times

'Ned's voice is the book and it is what makes the book wonderful. It is utterly convincing and continually surprising, creating new pleasures on every page.'
The Guardian