The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.
Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 496
Imprint: Penguin
Supplier: Penguin Random House Distribution
Subjects: Code FC (scheme 12), Code FA (scheme 12), Code FBC (scheme 93), Australian author; Australian fiction; Australian history; Australian literature; biographical fiction; Booker; Booker Prize; Booker Prize Winner; bushrangers; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; contemporary fiction; crime fiction; historical; historical fiction; history; literary fiction; Ned Kelly award; film; movie; western; george mackay; russell crowe; essie davis; claudia carvan; marlon williams; nicholas hoult; charlie hunnam; stan; justin kurzel
