Ned Kelly - Hardcover

FitzSimons, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1742758908 ISBN 13: 9781742758909

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 2014

Synopsis

More than 130 years after his execution, the legend of Ned Kelly lives on

Born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, the young Ned started his criminal career at 14 and was jailed for three years at 16 for a run-in with a policeman for stealing a horse. In 1890, Ned Kelly was hanged at 25 in the Melbourne Gaol, two years after the shooting of three policemen and the spate of outlandish bank robberies. It was from these killings and robberies where the legend of Ned Kelly, bushranger, antihero, and an icon of a nation, was born. The Kelly gang's last stand, at Glenrowan in Victoria, is at the very core of Australian folklore. The homemade armor that Ned donned in his last stand against the police force is an Australian icon and the subject of many stories and famous artworks. This year, 2013, sees Ned Kelly finally laid to rest in consecrated ground, as was his final wish.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sun-Herald and the Sydney Morning Herald, and the author of more than 20 books, including How Hemlines Predict the Economy.

Review:

"The Kelly book that exceeds Peter Carey's novel ... completely felt, viscerally characterised ... it success as compelling historical narrative ... the bantering, zesty prose takes you in and keeps you there. But it is FitzSimons' skill at creating a sense of a fully lived inner world that achieves a consistently transformative effect on the reader's mental world - the mark of a very good book indeed." -- Alex McDermott CANBERRA TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1742758908
• ISBN 13: 9781742758909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656