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Robert Drewe Our Sunshine [Used Book] Ned Kelly
Used, light reading wear, pages are lightly age toned, writing in texta on the inside cover. 0330272470 / 9780330272476 Paperback Picador
Robbing the first bank is like the silkiest good dream. Hovering above myself, watching me do it, hearing this half- stranger's sharp voice ring out. Me but not me inside, here and there but not entirely here or there. There I am pointing the bloody gun and giving the orders. Here I am looking into the worst fears realised in those clerkish eyes. There I aim - hello! - suddenly the man in charge of Death and Money. Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe, whose fiction is acclaimed for holding a mirror to contemporary suburban Australia, has now taken the country's greatest mythological character and created his own imaginary life for him. He presents an unsentimental, compassionate and sensual portrait of the boy and killer who became both the National Hero and the Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes. Succeeding in turning myth to funny, savage, commonplace and back again, Drewe portrays Ned Kelly and his adolescent gang both as young Horsemen of the Apocalypse - riding through Fire and Flood, Sex and Death - and as the psychologically displaced victims of the casually brutal human wilderness. Drewe not only gets inside the boy and man who thereafter embodied Australians' best and worst perceptions of themselves, but shows the crazy instability of the early days which created the Australian legend. The stunning clarity of his prose carries us into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation, an entrancing and frightening landscape of murder, prejudice, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, religion, greed, politics and corruption ... a world which we must finally recognise as our own.
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