Gould's Book of Fish [electronic resource]
Flanagan, Richard2014
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land 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, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened....
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Gould's Book of Fish [electronic resource] / Richard Flanagan
Author:
Flanagan, Richard, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Richard Flanagan is the author of three novels which have all been published to international acclaim: Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould's Book of Fish. His latest novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize 2014. He lives with his family in West Hobart, Tasmania.
ISBN:
9780857895158
Language:
English
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2768143
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