Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winner, True History of the Kelly Gang, is presented as a collection of the writings of the famed Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Largely uneducated, Kelly’s grasp of punctuation leaves a lot to be desired, but he tells his story with wit and verve. The style actually enhances the effect, as the reader often will have to re-read a passage to figure out where to insert the commas and periods in order to discern the meaning. Carey’s Kelly tells his tale from the […]