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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110090.True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171631392m/110090.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110090.True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22595.Peter_Carey">Peter Carey</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17856019?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>This Booker prize winning author has based this novel on a true Australian folk hero: a son of poor Irish immigrants part scapegoat, forced by his own code of ethics of loyalty to family and friends above all. into horse thieving and finally murder. Very well written, captured my interest although such "adventure" stories and tales of brutality and violence don't usually engage me. Written as the memoirs of the anti-hero in an ungrammatical, unschooled manner. A great read. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/760463?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>