Gould's Book of Fish - A Novel in Twelve Fish (Paperback, 1st Grove Press pbk. ed)

Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review--Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly--Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review--Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World--Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune--Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor--Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly--Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer--Year's Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune--Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould's Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.

General

Imprint:	Black Cat
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	December 2002
Authors:	Richard Flanagan
Dimensions:	228 x 132 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	404
Edition:	1st Grove Press pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3959-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-8021-3959-0
Barcode:	9780802139597

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