Gould's Book of Fish
Subtitle: A Novel in 12 Fish
Edition: 1st American ed edition
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802117113
Subjects: Prisoners as artists; Marine animals in art; Gould, William Buelow,; Fiction - General; Fiction; Sagas; Penal colonies; Historical - General; Gould, William Buelow; Literary; 1803-1853
First sentence: MY WONDER UPON discovering the Book of Fish remains with me yet, luminous as the phosphorescent marbling that seized my eyes that strange morning, glittering as those eerie swirls that coloured my mind and enchanted my soul-which there and then began the process of unravelling my heart and, worse still, my life into the poor, scraggy skein that is this story you are about to read.