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Gould's Book of Fish, A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan
- LITERATURE
- 2003
- PAPER
- 404 PAGES
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Flanagan keeps the reader guessing with a dizzying mix of history, fantasy and word play in this wildly inventive novel steeped in the 19th-century history of Tasmania and its brutal colonial prison. Billy Gould, his bawdy convict-narrator, contributes the paintings that introduce each section. winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of 19th-century Australia -- a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites -- whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.
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