![]() ![]() ![]() In this moving essay Krasnostein, who moved from America to Australia, interrogates notions of home, history, distance and identity in Peter Carey’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan’s paintings of the bushranger at the Met. He is surprising, at times so devastatingly tender he can kill you with a line no longer than a needle.’Īward-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang. He can hoist aloft hilariously low material on the lever of an elegant nineteenth-century sentence structure. He can flip an omniscient third-person perspective into an intimate first with the flick of a letter-writing quill. Exploring dislocation and longing, Sarah Krasnostein dives into Peter Carey's literary tour de force, True History of the Kelly Gang, in this latest offering from the stunning Writers on Writers essay series. ![]()
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