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Gould's Book of Fish|Richard Flanagan
Gould's Book of Fish : A Novel in 12 Fish
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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780802139597
  • ISBN-10: 0802139590
  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: December 2002
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Page Count: 416

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