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Thomas Jones: Peter Carey, 8 February 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey.
Faber, 352 pp., £16.99, January 2001,0 571 20987 4 Show More
by Peter Carey.
Faber, 352 pp., £16.99, January 2001,
“... in the hotel with the townspeople. Kelly’s downfall is his manuscript. The local schoolteacher, Thomas Curnow, offers to edit it for him, adding that he would need to take it home to do so. Kelly lets him go, and the last words of his account are ‘He waits. No time’ – this is one of at least four ways in which Curnow robs Kelly of his voice. He also ... ”