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alliedbiscuit 's review for:
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Masterful. If you judged this by some of the negative reviews here, you’d think it’s some interminable po-mo claptrap. While playful in structure, it’s actually a rip-roaring adventure that is very hard to put down once you get going. The intermingling of historical record and apocrypha, subtly shifting POV when Kelly couldn’t have told the story, even replacing words (“adjectival”) where Kelly wouldn’t want to curse—Seamless and killer stuff. It’s a hell of a story, and one that’s told with a lot of class consciousness and empathy for it’s outlaw subjects.
“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.”
“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.”