Gould's book of fish
Subtitle: a novel in twelve fish
By: by Richard Flanagan
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802117113
Subjects: Penal colonies; Prisoners as artists; Prisoners; Biographical fiction; Fiction; Painters; Fishes in art; Historical fiction; Marine animals in art
Description: The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical 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.
Notes: Originally published: Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2001.