Peter Carey on Ned Kelly

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Ned Kelly was a thief and a murderer. He shot and killed policemen - but he's considered on of Australia's great heroes.  Ned Kelly is also the subject of Peter Carey's  novel "True History of The Kelly Gang," which has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism."  Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in Kelly's voice - as a series of letters from Kelly to a fictional daughter.