Felicity's review
True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel by Peter Carey
Felicity's review
rating:
bookshelves: australia, booker-winners, fiction, novel
status: Read in January, 2006
rating:
bookshelves: australia, booker-winners, fiction, novel
status: Read in January, 2006
A historical novel in the form of the rough and rustic memoir of real 19th century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Sometimes bleak, sometimes funny; the story of the first and second generation of poor Irish settlers in Australia.
Quote: "They arrived in broken cart & drays they was of that type THE BENALLA ENSIGN named the most frightful class of people they couldnt afford to leave their cows & pigs but they done so because we was them and they was us and we had showed the world what convict blood could do. We proved there were no taint we was of true bone blood and beauty born."
Quote: "They arrived in broken cart & drays they was of that type THE BENALLA ENSIGN named the most frightful class of people they couldnt afford to leave their cows & pigs but they done so because we was them and they was us and we had showed the world what convict blood could do. We proved there were no taint we was of true bone blood and beauty born."
