Author: Richard Flanagan

Title: Gould's Book of Fish

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 416

Release Date: 2002-12-26

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780802139597

Package Dimensions: Height: 9 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 1 Pounds, Width: 1.25 Inches

Languages: en