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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/20726917?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>It took fifty pages before this novel caught me in its grip (perhaps because I was reading so intermittently), but eventually I realized just how singularly memorable and ingenious the narrative voice of Ned Kelly is in Carey's novel. The sympathy you develop for Kelly sits on top of your reacquaintance with the sordid history of penal transportation (from Ireland, etc.). A memorable, fiercely original novel (with a visual, evocative rendering of Australian cartography and landscapes) ... <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/891838?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>