Gould's Book of Fish |
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Author:
| Flanagan, Richard |
Series title: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-74275-509-0 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | Random House Australia
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel. 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 & forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in...
More Description From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.
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 & forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.
Once upon a time, there were miracles...
'A work of significant genius' --Chicago Tribune