True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang
First edition
AuthorPeter Carey
Cover artistKate Barry
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, historical novel
PublisherUQP (Australia)
Publication date
2000
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages401pp
ISBN0-7022-3236-X
OCLC52247236
Preceded byJack Maggs 
Followed byMy Life as a Fake 

True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000.[1] It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story.

  1. ^ An extract was previously published as Carey, Peter (Summer 2000). "True history of the Kelly Gang, first part". Granta. 70: 69–100.

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