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Gould´s Book of Fish
Richard Flanagan
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Description for Gould´s Book of Fish
Paperback. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 338.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784702892
SKU
V9781784702892
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-64
About Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep ... Read more
Reviews for Gould´s Book of Fish
A masterpiece
The Times
Flanagan's masterpiece
Washington Post
Lyrical and hilarious, tender and wildly angry by turns, it dazzlingly reconceives the form of the novel
Observer
Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales, Ulysses is a ... Read more
The Times
Flanagan's masterpiece
Washington Post
Lyrical and hilarious, tender and wildly angry by turns, it dazzlingly reconceives the form of the novel
Observer
Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales, Ulysses is a ... Read more