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Item Details
Title:
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GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH
A NOVEL IN TWELVE FISH |
By: |
Richard Flanagan |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£16.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1843540215 |
ISBN 13: |
9781843540212 |
Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
10 June, 2002 |
Pages: |
404 |
Description: |
In 1828, before all living things were destroyed, William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Diemen's Land, fell in love with a black woman and discovered, too late, that love is not safe. |
Synopsis: |
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 Diemen'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, 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. |
Illustrations: |
colour illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Atlantic Books |
Prizes: |
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2002
Winner of APA Design Awards: Hodder Headline Best Designed Literary Fiction
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2002
Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for
Short-listed for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002
Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best Fiction Book 2002 |
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Returnable |
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