"Carey succeeds in creating an account that not only feels authentic but also passes as a serious novel and solid, old-fashioned 'entertainment.' A big, meaty novel, blending Dickens and Cormac McCarthy with a distinctly Australian strain of melancholy."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A bravura performance.... Rewards the persistent reader with a powerful emotional experience."--The Wall Street Journal

"Carey's pen writes with an ink that is two parts archaic and one part modern and colors a prose that rocks and cajoles the reader into a certainty that Ned Kelly is fit company not only for Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood but for Thomas Jefferson and perhaps even a bodhisattva."--Los Angeles Times

"The power and charm of [this book] arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly...."--Time

"So adroit that you never doubt it's Kelly's own words you're reading in the headlong, action-packed story."--Newsweek

"This novel is worth our best attention."--The Washington Post Book World

"An avalanche of a novel.... Cary has raised a national legend to the level of an international myth."--Christian Science Monitor

"Packed with incident, alive with comedy and pathos . . . contains pretty much everything you could ask of a novel." --The New York Times Book Review