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Book Review of True History of the Kelly Gang : A Novel (Vintage International)

True History of the Kelly Gang : A Novel (Vintage International)
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Helpful Score: 4


This book is fascinating as written as the discovered "first hand account" of Ned Kelly. The author has filled the pages with all the flavor, pain, sorrow, confusion and simple daily delights of a back woods boy who grew to become the leader of the infamous Kelly Gang. The words fairly drip with sweat as the dread Ned Kelly goes from a hard working son to a bonded out side kick of the local Robin Hood. Life is never the same, but perhaps for the Kelly's it never was meant to be.

How I wish these were the words from the man himself, but these words certainly capture all the drama and joys that are so foreign to our current world.

Like time travel, ever so bitter-sweet.