Gould's Book of Fish

Flanagan, Richard

ISBN 10: 0802117112 / ISBN 13: 9780802117113

Edité par Grove Press, 2002

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New York. 2002. April 2002. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0802117112. 404 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Charles Rue Woods. Signed by the Author. keywords: Oceania Australia Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The novel from author Richard Flanagan, GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH is a tragicomic tapestry of nineteenth-century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.' Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before all 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 Sarah Island penal colony of Van Diemen's Land - now Tasmania. A talented phony and art forger, Gould was enlisted by the prison doctor Lempriere to get him into the Royal Society by painting 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. Foolish Billy Gould, invader of Australia, thief, liar, and murderer, lived to bear witness to horror and ridicule, and to miracles. inventory #34295.

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• Titre: Gould's Book of Fish
• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802117112
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802117113
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good in Dustjacket
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by the Author

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Book by Flanagan Richard

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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...