9780802139597-0802139590-Gould's Book of Fish

Gould's Book of Fish

ISBN-13: 9780802139597
ISBN-10: 0802139590
Edition: First Trade Paper
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Grove Press
Format: Paperback 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780802139597
ISBN-10: 0802139590
Edition: First Trade Paper
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Grove Press
Format: Paperback 416 pages

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Gould's Book of Fish (ISBN-13: 9780802139597 and ISBN-10: 0802139590), written by authors Richard Flanagan, was published by Grove Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Gould's Book of Fish (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

New York Times Book ReviewNotable Fiction 2002

Entertainment WeeklyBest Fiction of 2002

Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBest of the Best 2002

Washington Post Book WorldRaves 2002

Chicago TribuneFavorite Books of 2002

Christian Science MonitorBest Books 2002

Publishers WeeklyBest Books of 2002

The Cleveland Plain DealerYear’s Best Books

Minneapolis Star TribuneStandout 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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