Gould's Book of Fish

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Richard Flanagan ISBN: 9780802191991
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Publication: September 23, 2014
Imprint: Grove Press Language: English
Author: Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9780802191991
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication: September 23, 2014
Imprint: Grove Press
Language: English

**Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

New York Times Book Review-Notable Fiction 2002

Entertainment Weekly-Best Fiction of 2002

Los Angeles Times Book Review-Best of the Best 2002

Washington Post Book World-Raves 2002

Chicago Tribune-Favorite Books of 2002

Christian Science Monitor-Best Books 2002

Publishers Weekly-Best Books of 2002

The Cleveland Plain Dealer-Year’s Best Books

Minneapolis Star Tribune-Standout 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.

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**Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

New York Times Book Review-Notable Fiction 2002

Entertainment Weekly-Best Fiction of 2002

Los Angeles Times Book Review-Best of the Best 2002

Washington Post Book World-Raves 2002

Chicago Tribune-Favorite Books of 2002

Christian Science Monitor-Best Books 2002

Publishers Weekly-Best Books of 2002

The Cleveland Plain Dealer-Year’s Best Books

Minneapolis Star Tribune-Standout 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.

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