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Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Gould's Book of Fish
- Publication Name
- Gould's Book of Fish
- Title
- Gould's Book of Fish
- Subtitle
- A Novel in 12 Fish
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0802139590
- EAN
- 9780802139597
- ISBN
- 9780802139597
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Release Year
- 2002
- Release Date
- 26/12/2002
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Published in hardcover to outstanding acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic 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. Widely hailed as a masterpiece and a work of genius, it stands out as one of the best novels of recent years. Billy Gould was a forger and thief sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony in Van Diemen's Land -- now Tasmania. After six months he escaped and boarded a whaler for the Americas, but before long his adventures landed him back in prison. The prison doctor Lempriere utilizes Gould's painting talents to create an illustrated taxonomy of the country's exotic sea creatures, which Lempriere madly believes will assure his place in history and the Royal Society. Lost and re-created, destroyed and hidden, Gould's book finally resurfaces in the present day littered with scrawls recording his unutterably strange life -- part freewheeling picaresque, part tragicomedy -- and that of his country, a penal colony, settlement, and magical space populated by generals, visionaries, and madmen. Gould's Book of Fish is a tour de force that questions the reliability of history and science, and the substance of artistic creation. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "a huge, phantasmagorical work ... as inventive and visionary in its reimagination of history as [Toni] Morrison's masterwork, Beloved." "Gould's Book of Fish ...is ... by turns bawdy and pensive, moving and abrasive, visionary and squalid, apocalyptic and confessional." -- Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World "Flanagan's masterful balancing act between what we endure and where we prevail ricochets page-to-page at breakneck read with passion and compassion, from the rhapsodic to Rabelaisian." -- Gordon Hauptfleisch, San Diego Union-Tribune "Remarkable ... A serene, chilling vision of human life as comparable to the life of fish, 'swimming in vast coldness, alone.'" -- The New Yorker "A work of significant genius ... terrifying, exhilarating, and amazingly beautiful." -- E. William Smethurst, Jr., Chicago Tribune "Flanagan ... leaps beyond his country's history toward the biggest questions that love and language can pose." -- Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor
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GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802139590
ISBN-13
9780802139597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2356402
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gould's Book of Fish
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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