Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish - Couverture rigide

Flanagan, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802117112 ISBN 13 : 9780802117113

Editeur : Grove Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Flanagan Richard

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
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 Dieman'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, fantasist, 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...

Revue de presse :

A seamless masterpiece --Peter Carty, Independent on Sunday
I urge you to read it --Robert MacFarlane, Observer
A truly great book that will be read by serious people long after most of the literary fiction of our time is forgotten --Richard Holloway, Sunday Herald
A masterpiece --John Burnside, The Times
Hugely original --Alex Clark, The Guardian
Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish the way Ulysses is a novel about the events of a single day --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
A strange and amazing book --Alex Linklater, Prospect

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grove Pr
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802117112
• ISBN 13: 9780802117113
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 404