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"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 . . ."
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Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Gould's Book of Fish
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Flanagan
- Publisher
- Vintage books
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN10
- 0857989219
- ISBN13
- 9780857989215
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gifts for grandpa, Australia, Fish, Australian Literature, British Empire, Tasmania
- Original title
- Gould's book of fish
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- "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 . . ."