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True History of the Kelly Gang
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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I received this in the mail today from dulcinea99 in New York City (the book left NYC on April 15th, and arrived in New Westminster, British Columbia on April 21st - not bad!). Thanks very much for the trade, and for posting this book so promptly. I'm really looking forward to reading it!
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Despite Edward "Ned" Kelly's status as an Australian folk hero, and the many songs, books and films which have been written and produced to tell his story, I had never heard of him before reading this book. True History of the Kelly Gang begins around 1866 when narrator Ned Kelly is twelve years old. Told in the first person in a series of thirteen fictional parcels of loose paper apparently written by Kelly for his daughter (and later transported to Melbourne in a mysterious metal trunk), the novel follows Kelly and the so-called "Kelly Gang" (younger brother Daniel Kelly and friends Joe Byrne and Steven Hart) over a twelve year period, concluding with Ned's hanging in 1880 at the age of twenty-six. One reviewer commented that True Story is not so much the story of an individual as the story of a people. Indeed, the story begins even before 1866 with the forcible transportation of Ned's father John Kelly from his home in Tipperary to a prison in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), after having been convicted of murdering an Irish landowner for evicting a tenant farmer. Freed from "the Demon" at 30, John Kelly walks across Australia to begin a new life, only to find his circumstances as dire as they ever were. Desperate and starving, son Ned steals his first heiffer at the age of 11. He's forced to quit school to support his family at age twelve, and at fifteen is sold by his mother into an "apprenticeship" with Australian bushranger (highwayman) Harry Power. You can read a Wikipedia article about the real Ned Kelly here. There are also a number of websites dedicated to his story, including this one: Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw. (Photo: Ned Kelly on the day before his execution in 1880, courtesy the State Library of Victoria.) |
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Released 6 yrs ago (9/13/2005 UTC) at -- wild released somewhere in Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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