True History of the Kelly Gang
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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Narrated by:
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Gianfranco Negroponte
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By:
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Peter Carey
About this listen
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 semiliterate 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.
©2000 Peter Carey (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about True History of the Kelly Gang
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- Anonymous User
- 28-10-2020
Perfection
Incredible from start to finish, this is my favourite audio book yet. The narrator more than manages to do this poetic and stunningly captivating book justice.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-01-2024
Incredible
This is literature at its best. Wonderful narration and an absolutely gripping Australian story. Carey is so good at capturing character and the Australian ethos, with such limited, but at time beautiful, prose.
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- James W. Matson
- 13-03-2022
Fantastic book
Great book, cleverly written and crafted. Read well. I wonder if it would have been for an Irish Australian narrator. I do love that accent, and seems to be Carey's intent re voice.
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- Kittykatch
- 13-05-2022
Must Read
I really enjoyed listening to this well written account of the Kelly Gang story. I felt drawn back into that Aussie landscape. The narration was excellent too.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-01-2019
A great story that's difficult to put down.
Well worth the listening time.A great story that's difficult to put down. well written and well read.
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- Jacquelyn
- 08-07-2024
A true modern Aussie classic
I'm really glad I finally got around to this modern Australian classic.
Carey's characterisation of Ned Kelly is gripping and inspires empathy for the lower class of the early white settlement of the colony of Victoria. As is the sign of a great historical fiction novel about real-life figures, it had me stopping along the way to research the people, places and events to discern what was fiction & what was history.
Gianfranco Negroponte's narration absolutely fantastic, matching the pace and emotion needed for each scene.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-09-2024
Very good
I found this a neutral and non dramatised account. i guess we all know the ending but it was Hard to stop listening to. great job.
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- Brett
- 26-09-2024
Engrossing tale of the legend of Ned Kelly
A great very easy to listen to tale. Performance was excellent too. Highly recommended and well worth a listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-2018
Most adjectival special
An important story, with lasting significance. Peter has built a fine vessel for this important history. No lack of entertainment along the way. Many thanks.
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- Joshua Ryan
- 01-05-2020
Wow!
Every Australian should read (listen) to this book. Full of great stories and anecdotes about what it was like living in the Bush in the late 19th century.
"Ned" was clearly an intelligent bloke whom was fiercely loyal to his family and even loyal to people who didn't deserve it. He was a victim of circumstance, a victim of a corrupt system that stereotyped the Irish and treated them very harshly. "Ned" wouldn't cop their rubbish and stood up to them in a way that would amaze people these days. It cost him everything in the end, but he is a revered figure in aussie folklore and rightly so.
Highly recommend this book.
A real eye opener.
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