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![]() ![]() of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false. He died by hanging in Melbourne on 11th November 1880 at the age of 25. It begins with accounts of his early life in country Victoria, and ends with his description of the siege at Glenrowan where he was captured by police, put on trial, and sentenced to death. The author has imagined that the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has given an account of his life for the daughter he hasn’t met. ![]() Carey said: “ My thanks to all my publishers who did not try to add a single comma.“ Peter Carey wrote his imagined version just as Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter – sprawling and rambling. ![]()
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