
Gould's Book Of Fish
Author: Flanagan, Richard
ISBN: 9781761048135
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year First Published: 2023
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle Times
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 and 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 . . .
ISBN: 9781761048135
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year First Published: 2023
Pages: 480
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle Times
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 and 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 . . .