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In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood.
- Sales Rank: #2518465 in Books
- Published on: 2002
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
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In His Own Words
By Roger Brunyate
This is an astounding book, one of those Booker Prize winners that do not leave you wondering about the sanity of the judges. Peter Carey tells the story of Ned Kelly, a nineteenth-century Australian outlaw and folk-hero, ostensibly in his own words. And what words those are! Carey sets up the voice in the opening sentence: "I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."
This punctuation-free run-on style is splendidly vigorous, but it is not entirely Carey's invention. We have one example of Kelly's own voice from the famous "Jerilderie Letter" that he dictated in 1879 in an attempt to justify himself. The first sentence after the salutation establishes the tone for the rest: "In or about the spring of 1870 the ground was very soft a hawker named Mr Gould got his waggon bogged between Greta and my mother's house on the eleven mile creek, the ground was that rotten it would bog a duck in places so Mr. Gould had abandon his waggon for fear of loosing his horses in the spewy ground." So Carey's achievement is less in inventing this style than in extending it for 360 pages, including passages of racy ribaldry that go way beyond the original, such as when Ned as a boy describes his mother's anger: "She cried I would kill the b-----ds if I were a man God help me. She used many rough expressions I will not write them here. It were eff this and ess that and she would blow their adjectival brains out." The initial difficulty of this writing soon passes off, making one's reading something like an exhilarating ride on a wild horse. [It is interesting that fellow-Australian Roger McDonald used a very similar archaic language two years previously for parts of his wonderful MR. DARWIN'S SHOOTER.]
Ned is a very sympathetic character, partly on account of his humor, honesty, and moral scruples, partly because the cards are so clearly stacked against him. Carey presents Queensland in the 1870s as an oligarchy in which a few rich settlers manipulate the laws with the aid of a corrupt police force in order to squeeze the former convicts off the poor plots of land that have been allotted to them. There is one especially egregious scene in which Ned, on his second run-in with the police, is brought to the Commissioner's mansion in Melbourne as a kind of after-dinner entertainment. Approve or not of his means (which eventually involved the killing of policemen), it is hard to question Kelly's fight for equality and easy to see how he could have become a folk hero to an underclass population.
Although I am giving this novel five stars for its brilliance, empathy, and sense of character and place, I must admit to not enjoying it quite as much as I thought I would at the beginning. I think this is because a mere string of events eventually wears thin as the organizing principle of a novel, whether it be Carey's Ned Kelly or Fielding's Tom Jones. I think Carey intended to tie it together with an overarching moral paradox: that as Ned's fight against authority becomes less for himself alone, his means of achieving it escalate in criminality. But this only comes into focus in the last third of the book, but which time it has become a little hard to keep up with all the characters involved, and their often changing allegiances. This slight let-down at the end of the book is something I also felt with Carey's previous Booker winner, OSCAR AND LUCINDA. It is a pity, because he really is a remarkable author.
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Four Stars
By MusicMommy
It started out slow and predictable, but plot twists made it dark.
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Neat device. Were it really written by Ned Kelly!
By Sen Peng Eu
This amazing book is a page-turner. I wonder if Ned Kelly indeed wrote these packages, he would have been a master in literature.
I highly suggest that readers make a comparative read of "True History of the Kelly Gang" and the "Cloudspitter". Two similar stories, one in Australia the other in America, both related by the main character, Ned Kelley and Owen Brown. Readers can compare the different styles and ways how two authors tried to make their fiction convincible.
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