Gould's book of fish
Flanagan, Richard, 1961-2016
Book
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 & 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...
Main title:
Gould's book of fish / Richard Flanagan.
Author:
Flanagan, Richard, 1961-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2016.©2001
Collation:
458 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, 2001.Also issued online.
ISBN:
9781784702892 (pbk)9781784702892 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
722895
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | FLAN | Available |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | FLAN | On reserve shelf at North Melbourne Library |