True History of the Kelly Gang

Name: True History of the Kelly Gang
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by Peter Carey · first published 2000

True History of the Kelly Gang is a 2000 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, loosely based on the life of Ned Kelly and his gang. Written as a fictional memoir as if by Kelly, the novel draws on the style of the bushranger's Jerilderie Letter and reimagines the events of his life in colonial Australia. It was first published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press. The work is a piece of historical fiction that explores themes of identity, myth-making, and the tension between personal narrative and recorded history.

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